Europe demands from Russia to allow free flights over Siberia

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European officials made another scandalous statement against Russia. The head of the transport directorate of the European Commission, Henrik Hololei, demanded that the Russian Federation stop charging foreign airlines for flights over Siberia.

If one day we have the opportunity to see the opening of Russian airspace, one thing must disappear - Trans-Siberian royalties

Holly said.



Recall that the so-called Trans-Siberian royalties were introduced back in Soviet times. Since then, the European leadership has been persistently seeking the abolition of fees for flights through Russian airspace. In 2011, it almost succeeded. As part of the negotiations on the entry of the Russian Federation into the World Trade Organization, a memorandum was signed on the abolition of royalties. It was supposed to come into force in 2014. But this never happened.

Last year, after the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, most European countries closed their airspace to Russian aircraft. Moscow responded symmetrically.

Subsequently, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation calculated that in March last year alone, foreign airlines, for which the Russian skies were closed, lost $37,5 million weekly.

In all likelihood, in Europe they began to slowly begin to see clearly. But the impudence of individual politicians didn't go anywhere. After all, Europe does not plan to open its skies for Russian aircraft.

We add that before the restrictive measures came into force, the Russian Federation annually received almost $ 2 billion in fees for overflight through its airspace.
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  1. Donskoy D.
    Donskoy D.
    +8
    17 January 2023 10: 17
    The colonialists will not wake up in any way.
  2. Constantine N
    Constantine N
    +5
    17 January 2023 10: 47
    One of the methods of pressure. Something like, if we agree to negotiations on Ukraine, then you will make a lot of concessions to us.
  3. Skipper
    Skipper
    +8
    17 January 2023 11: 23
    Living in their illusory false little world saturated with Nazism, where they are above all and the rest always owe them.
  4. Oleg V.
    Oleg V.
    +9
    17 January 2023 11: 35
    But this shobla will not stick together ???
  5. mark1
    mark1
    +6
    17 January 2023 12: 18
    They pay not the state but Aeroflot for escort, so it would be possible to simply ban the flight, it would have little effect on us and we would receive no small satisfaction.
    1. mark1
      mark1
      +6
      17 January 2023 19: 38
      By the way, where are the Russian Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions on the map?
      1. guest
        guest
        +2
        18 January 2023 15: 21
        So even Kaliningrad is missing there.
  6. prior
    prior
    +9
    17 January 2023 13: 10
    It's necessary that impunity does with Euro-assholes.
  7. viktor goblin
    viktor goblin
    0
    17 January 2023 18: 19
    You can demand from and . If paid.
  8. Sapsan136
    Sapsan136
    +11
    17 January 2023 19: 30
    The Russian Federation should not be canceled, but increase the fee for flying through the airspace of the Russian Federation, and not for states friendly to the Russian Federation, ten times the cost for the rest ... It's time to impose sanctions against Russophobes and the stronger the better.
  9. sgr291158
    sgr291158
    +9
    18 January 2023 06: 15
    Here it is necessary to put an ultimatum. Stop the supply of weapons, mercenaries and generally do not climb into Ukraine.
  10. Vasya 225
    Vasya 225
    +5
    18 January 2023 09: 38
    The word "require" looks especially good.
  11. Ibuprofen
    Ibuprofen
    +2
    18 January 2023 09: 38
    Here it is necessary to clarify that the fee does not go to the Russian budget. Rather, the standard navigation fee goes to the budget, against which no one objects. This, roughly speaking, is for the salaries of dispatchers and new locators.
    It's about one more collection. There is one cunning company called Aeroflot. She pushed through the government "fee for the use of air routes" (somehow it's called, I can't vouch for the correctness). The point is that these routes were, as it were, developed in Soviet times by Aeroflot (after all, everything related to civil aviation was then called "Aeroflot"), and this fee is, like, a payment for copyrights on these routes.
    Although today's Aeroflot-Russian Airlines PJSC was founded in 1992, it has nothing to do with the old Aeroflot, except for the name, and partly state capital.
    It is precisely this collection that everyone considers lawlessness, and no one wants to pay.
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  14. BoBot Robot - Free Thinking Machine
    BoBot Robot - Free Thinking Machine
    +3
    18 January 2023 13: 21
    figwam you transenders
  15. George1950
    George1950
    +3
    18 January 2023 16: 08
    First, return Alaska, and then we'll see where you fly ...
  16. Enoch
    Enoch
    0
    18 January 2023 16: 47
    This is possible, current on a Russian plane and behind Russian bars.
  17. sgrabik
    sgrabik
    +1
    18 January 2023 19: 17
    Western European dishes still do not understand the main thing, that it is useless and expensive to talk to Russia from a position of strength.
  18. Alexey Alekseev_4
    Alexey Alekseev_4
    0
    19 January 2023 09: 50
    I didn’t understand. Do they demand to cancel the overflight fee? Do they continue to fly despite the ban?