Ban Loosers

From the MT:
"Moscow Airports Lose $76 Million From Flight Bans"

Financial losses for Moscow's airports from Russia's ban on flights to Turkey, Egypt and Ukraine amount to 6 billion rubles ($76 million), according to Domodedovo Airport's acting director Denis Nuzhdin, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.  The biggest loss — more than 3 billion rubles — resulted from restrictions on flights to Turkey, Nuzhdin said.  The ban on flights to Egypt cost Moscow airports 2.3 billion rubles ($29 million) and another 690 million rubles ($8.7 million) was lost due to the suspension of flights to Ukraine, Nuzhdin added.  Flights between Russia and Ukraine were halted in October amid a standoff over Moscow's actions in eastern Ukraine.  In November, Russia imposed a ban on all passenger flights to Egypt after a Russian plane was brought down by a terrorist bomb over the Sinai Peninsula.  Charter flights to Turkey were banned by Russia from Dec. 1 as part of sanctions against the country over its downing of a Russian warplane.  Nuzhdin said domestic flights will not compensate for losses caused by the cancellation of foreign routes.

 

^ I agree with suspending flights to Egypt because of the terrorist attack, but the rest of the loses (Turkey and the Ukraine) are due to the Russian Government's actions and could be reversed if they stopped supplying soldiers and weapons to the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, returned the Crimea and worked things out with Turkey. I don't see those happening anytime soon because Russia has never liked to admit their mistakes and would rather continuing "digging their hole" even deeper and making life even more hard for ordinary Russians.  Sometimes admitting your mistake and fixing it shows how strong and powerful you really are. ^

 

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/moscow-airports-lose-76-million-from-flight-bans/559113.html