The Dubai government is considering an initial public offering of Emirates airline, the flagship carrier's President Tim Clark said on Monday, as authorities work to boost activity on the local stock market.
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FILE PHOTO: Mexico s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador addresses to the nation on his second anniversary as the President of Mexico, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican officials met with bosses of the country’s airlines on Wednesday and called for a meeting with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to address the agency’s downgrading of Mexico’s air safety rating, the government said.
“We have sent the FAA administrator a new statement by email requesting an urgent meeting with its auditors to jointly review, with our specialists, the evidence submitted,” Deputy Transport Minister Carlos Alfonso Moran said in a statement issued late on Wednesday.
Mexican officials met with bosses of the country's airlines on Wednesday and called for a meeting with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to address the agency's downgrading of Mexico's air safety rating, the government said.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union told its airlines to shun Belarusian airspace and agreed to ban Belarusian national airline Belavia from its skies and airports in response to Minsk scrambling a warplane to force the landing of a Ryanair flight carrying an opposition journalist.
Here are some details on air traffic between the EU and Belarus and how it might be affected. Lufthansa, SAS, Air France, LOT, Singapore Airlines, Finnair and airBaltic are among carriers that announced they would stop flying over Belarus. European air traffic control agency Eurocontrol said around 400 civilian planes usually fly over Belarus every day, including 300 overflights of which about 100 are operated by EU or British carriers.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia will restrict flights to and from Turkey from April 15 to June 1 due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in Turkey, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Monday, amid growing political tensions between the two countries.
FILE PHOTO: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova attends a session of a coordination council to confront the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Moscow, Russia March 14, 2020. Sputnik/Alexander Astafyev/Pool via REUTERS
The decision to drastically cut the number of flights to Turkey, which is heavily reliant on revenue from tourism, was announced two days after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Istanbul.