Russia Closes Airspace To British Airlines

[WHITT]

MOSCOW, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Russia has banned British airlines from landing at its airports or crossing its airspace, its state civil aviation regulator said on Friday.

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The counter-sanctions begin.

[Scrivener7]

1. The Russian economy is half the size of the California economy. The rest of the

world will easily absorb the loss of that revenue and trade if Russia imposes "sanctions" on us. They don't really have much to work with on that score.

Russia losing the rest of the world's revenue and trade will not be easy.

[WHITT]

9. Yep

Whatever he does won't amount to much, but there will be some blowback.

[RKP5637]

2. BFD, Putin, the rest of the world is bigger than you. n/t

[MineralMan]

3. And those airlines breathed a big sigh of relief.

If Putin is initiating the self-isolation of Russia, he's on his way to turning the country into another North Korea.

Putin is, I believe, seriously delusional. That makes him dangerous in a way that is hard to describe.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Yeah, I wouldn't want to fly there. They have a suspicious record of planes landing short of runway.

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Mix in bad weather and oops, the plane crashes short of the runway.

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[regnaD kciN]

4. I hope every western nation...

…follows up by banning Aeroflot from its airspace.

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Of course after the UK banned Aeroflot and any Rusky registered aircraft from the UK.

Not that any British carrier would be going there anyway.

I guess Putin is saying, "I'll show you!"

[msongs]

6. close every airspace to flights in and out of russia nt

[world wide wally]

7. Saves the British the trouble of announcing it themselves.

[Bev54]

8. Well I for one would not want to be in any airliner flying over

Russian airspace or Ukraine or Belarus.