Press Release: Commission updates the list of airlines banned from the European airspace

The European Commission adopted on 30 March 2010 the thirteenth update of the Community’s list of airlines banned in the European Union to include all air carriers of two additional countries: Sudan and the Philippines, on the basis of safety assessments by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). With this update, restrictions placed on Air Koryo from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and TAAG from Angola are partially lifted under certain conditions, while the operations of Iran Air will be restricted

European Commission: Memo: MEMO/10/112: Questions and answers on the list of air carriers subject to an operating ban in the EU http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/112&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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