In the interest of passenger safety, the EU has updated its list of airlines banned from operating in Europe. The updated list includes 178 airlines banned from EU skies, with the addition of a Venezuelan airline.
Airlines featured on the European Commission's blacklist are either banned from operating in Europe or restricted to operating under certain conditions. As well as helping to maintain high levels of safety in the EU, the list also aims to encourage affected airlines and countries to improve their levels of safety.
Indeed, airlines are not doomed to stay on the list forever -- they can be added and removed as safety standards evolve. The latest update sees Mustique Airways, based in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Ukrainian carrier Urga removed from the list after making sufficient improvements to safety. The freshly updated list also gets one new addition, Venezuela's Avior Airlines.
The majority of the airlines (172) banned from EU skies on safety grounds operate in Africa, based, for example, in Angola, the Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Libya and Sudan.
See the full EU Air Safety List of carriers banned from operating in the EU: ec.europa.eu/transport
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