Moscow made a proposal to Kiev to cancel the limits on direct air mail and in transit for Russian and Ukrainian airlines, the Rosaviation informs.
As emphasized in the message, the dialogue was held in connection with the received in the Federal air transport Agency requests the Ukrainian airlines to have an impact on the preservation of regular air messages between the cities of Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine, with its own hand, made the proposal to consider removing mutual restrictions on transit flights, reports RIA " Novosti "." in addition, abolition of restrictions on transit flights will not solve the main issue - the preservation of regular flights between cities of Russia and Ukraine, as was requested by the Ukrainian airline and in the interests of passengers ", - stated in the message. At the same time, the Ukrainian Minister of infrastructure Andriy Pivovarsky announced the cancellation of sanctions against Russian airlines. According to his statement, the Russian airline that fly to Crimea, will not be able to fly in cities of Ukraine and " will have this opportunity only if you give up the flights in the Crimea, pay the fine, Deutsche Welle reports." in this case, the national security Council look at the possibility of removing such companies from the sanctions list, " he said. To the question about How Ukraine plans to compensate for Ukrainian passengers limits the ability to get to Russia because of retaliatory punishment of the Russian capital, brewer said: "at present we do not see increasing demand for rail. Neighbouring countries - Belarus, Moldova - are ready to increase the number of flights to the capital of Russia "." But you should also understand that the overwhelming number of passengers who flew to the capital of Russia, are transit passengers. They flew to the Russian capital to catch another plane to get to some other point on the planet. These passengers will be able to use Ukrainian or hubs European hubs, " said brewer.
on the last working day of the week, the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and Ukraine held a technical meeting in Brussels on the issue of air service. The head of the Ministry of transport of Russia Maxim Sokolov said that the 1st round of negotiations on air traffic between Russia and Ukraine will take place on 24 October in Brussels. On the first day of the week Ukrainian airlines has applied for permission for the flights during the winter navigation season 2015 - 2016. For example, the airline "Atlasjet Ukraine" asks permission to perform flights on three routes: Kiev-Moscow, Odessa-Moscow and Kiev-St. Petersburg, "UTair-Ukraine" ? on the route Kiev-Moscow and Lviv-Moscow. On 12 October the Ministry of transport of Russia has received the notification of the State aviation administration of Ukraine about a complete stop of the air messages between Ukraine and Russia on October 25.

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