Norwegian flies into aviation dispute with Russia | Barentsobserver
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CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, Bjørn Kjos, says Russian airliners should be denied to overfly Norwegian territory. His Dreamliner is forced to fly around Russian territory on routes from Scandinavia to Bangkok.
Russia has disapproved Norwegian Air Shuttle application to fly across Russia on its direct route from Oslo to Thailand. The extra distance flying around Russian airspace costed Norwegian around NOK 100 million (€11,5 million) last year, Dagens Næringsliv reports. Every day, the aircrafts consume several tons more of fuel because of the extra distance.
“It is completely pointless,” says Bjørn Kjos.
On route from Oslo to Bangkok, the pilots have to fly south to Turkish airspace before turning east, instead of flying directly over the southern part of Russian airspace like other aircrafts en route from Scandinavia and destinations in Southeast-Asia. Norwegian’s flight therefore takes some 50 minutes extra and consume nearly 4,5 tons extra fuel.
Bjørn Kjos now asks the Norwegian government to close the airspace over Norway for Russian airliners if Russia doesn’t open the skies for Norwegian.
“I think that is the only languages the Russians understand,” Kjos says to Dagens Næringsliv.
Note : pour une partie des médias ukrainiens (liveuamap.com, en particulier, cette info devient :
Norway offer to close airspace for Aeroflot and Transaero.
