Closed Ukraine Airspace Handled 350 Daily Flights: Eurocontrol
2014-07-18 11:57:56.785 GMT
By Jonathan Stearns
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- About 350 flights a day passed
through the eastern Ukrainian airspace now closed to commercial
airlines as a result of the country’s conflict with pro-Russian
separatists, says an official from Eurocontrol.
* Of this total, about 150 flights a day were by western and
central European carriers on Asian routes, Brian Flynn, a
senior manager at the European air-navigation agency, tells
reporters in Brussels
* Those 150 flights would have crossed eastern Ukraine at a
height of more than 32,000 feet, the level above which the
airspace was open until yesterday, says Flynn
* Ukraine on July 1 closed its eastern airspace up to 26,000
feet and on July 14 raised the ceiling to 32,000 feet before
shutting the whole zone because of yesterday’s crash of a
Malaysian Airline System Bhd. plane, he says
* Past civil conflicts including those in Kosovo and Libya
provoked partial airspace closures, according to Flynn
* “It’s not very common, but it’s not that unusual, to have
different degrees of restriction,” he says
* With Ukraine saying pro-Russian militants fired a missile
that knocked the Boeing Co. 777 aircraft traveling from
Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur out of the sky 50 kilometers (30
miles) from the Russian border, Flynn says: “We have no
reason whatsoever to believe there was anything wrong with
the flight before it disappeared from radar”
* NOTE: Russia and Ukraine Trade Accusations on Downing of
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* NOTE: July 17: Eurocontrol Says It Rejects Flight Plans Over
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2014-07-18 11:57:56.785 GMT
By Jonathan Stearns
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- About 350 flights a day passed
through the eastern Ukrainian airspace now closed to commercial
airlines as a result of the country’s conflict with pro-Russian
separatists, says an official from Eurocontrol.
* Of this total, about 150 flights a day were by western and
central European carriers on Asian routes, Brian Flynn, a
senior manager at the European air-navigation agency, tells
reporters in Brussels
* Those 150 flights would have crossed eastern Ukraine at a
height of more than 32,000 feet, the level above which the
airspace was open until yesterday, says Flynn
* Ukraine on July 1 closed its eastern airspace up to 26,000
feet and on July 14 raised the ceiling to 32,000 feet before
shutting the whole zone because of yesterday’s crash of a
Malaysian Airline System Bhd. plane, he says
* Past civil conflicts including those in Kosovo and Libya
provoked partial airspace closures, according to Flynn
* “It’s not very common, but it’s not that unusual, to have
different degrees of restriction,” he says
* With Ukraine saying pro-Russian militants fired a missile
that knocked the Boeing Co. 777 aircraft traveling from
Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur out of the sky 50 kilometers (30
miles) from the Russian border, Flynn says: “We have no
reason whatsoever to believe there was anything wrong with
the flight before it disappeared from radar”
* NOTE: Russia and Ukraine Trade Accusations on Downing of
Malaysia Jet {NSN N8WLZV6S9736 <GO>}
* NOTE: July 17: Eurocontrol Says It Rejects Flight Plans Over
Eastern Ukraine {NSN N8VGSK6TTDSA <GO>}
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Ian Wishart at +32-2-237-4344 or
iwishart@bloomberg.net