On Sunday the European Union announced sweeping sanctions against Russia, which also impact the aviation industry. I’ve already written about how the European Union will be closing its airspace to Russia. Equally significant, arguably, is that a bunch of Russian jets are now supposed to be seized.
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The situation is actually more complex, because the prohibition also voids aviation insurance and reinsurance placed by or with Russian entities. That means that airlines and aircraft all over the world could potentially be affected by this if their insurers have any exposure to Russian reinsurance syndicates. It will take most people the better part of the month to simply figure out where their exposure lies, before they can even plan or execute ways to unwind it. A complete mess.
"Slightly" OT, but take a look at Nordwind's B777-300ER seatmap: 
. Interesting business class layout with just 1-1-1 across two rows. I tried finding a picture of the cabin, but to no avail. Does anyone know how it looks? (I'm guessing 2-2-2 but with blocked seats?)
Maybe EU member states will allow leasing companies some sort of write-offs. Though on a different scale, but what happened to planes on lease when Iran was slapped with similar sanctions?
Looks like it's the CX F seat - a true 1-1-1 configuration!
https://youtu.be/NpIWkU9qk3A?t=27
Surprising, but makes sense when you look up at the history of VP-BJP, which is an ex-CX plane (B-KPB)
Speaking of complete mess, would this void Montenegro's (NATO member) recognition of Sputnik V vaccines?
Since EU can sanction (bully) almost everything, why not vaccines too?
Let's get those people 2 more jabs of Pfizer or they suddenly become unvaccinated.
LOL, what a mess!!!!
Wow!
Some Russian airlines have (/had) a pretty solid hard product - Aeroflot's new A350s (might rival QR as the best business class around these days?), Transaero's "Imperial Class" and now this from Nordwind 🙂
The way things are going, I don’t think that many Russians will have the cash to travel or won’t even have a place to travel to. The only wild card is China for the moment but I think they will sit this one out for now.
Yes, and what about the banana prices on Easter Island!? And whatabout something else irrelevant??
Your lazy pro-fascist grievances are really dull. Did someone ask you to wear a mask? Is this the part where you compare the horrendous experience of civilians getting cluster bombed in Kharkiv (by RUSSIA) to having to wear a mask for a short amount of time? Or being asked to take a potentially life-saving vaccine for free?
Grow up.
And yet you still couldn't grasp the concept, thinking this is all pro-fascist.
People in the middle are suffering for stupid geopolitical reasons such as 2 sides trying to flex their military muscles. When the West is arming Ukraine don't they ever think about how Russia will retaliate.
Do you even think sanctions will stop Russia and help Ukraine rebuild? Again people caught in the middle is the one who suffers, not the leaders of either side.
Same goes with the whatever future conflict with China in the next few decades.
Do you really think Biden really cares about these buffer nation in an all out war? Next on the war chopping board is probably Korea or Taiwan, both are oceans away.
Every country has their own agenda and propaganda machine. It's the victors who write history books, not what might have really taken place.
Grow up.
As soon as I heard about sanctions, I thought that aircraft leasing companies may be hosed. Sanctions will hurt the West but Putin is so bad that something has to be done, even to help the corrupt country of Ukraine.
The planes that really need to be impacted are the oligarch’s private jets. As always, it’s not the average Russian we have a beef with, but the so-called “elites”, referring only to their stolen wealth and stolen power. And what’s with the US not banning anything? How many oligarch planes are sitting in the Miami area now?
If 800 airplanes are dumped on the market, this will cause a write down for every airline in the world.