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EU Bans 93 Airlines for Safety Reasons

22nd March 2006 The European Commission has drawn up a list of airlines to be banned from flying in the European Union.

The blacklist, published today, contains 93 airlines that have been stopped from flying through Europe along with a further 3 airlines that may operate only by leasing aircraft from a non blacklisted company. The majority of the airlines listed on the report are African based but airlines from Democratic People Republic of Korea and Kazakhstan are also included.

The full list [as of 22nd March 2006] can be downloaded here:
www.tdtravelgroup.com/docs/2006_03_22_flywell_list_en.pdf [40kb]

Further Information:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/transport/air/safety/flywell_en.htm

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