UK sanctions Russian airlines to prevent them selling landing slots
LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it was
introducing new sanctions against the Russian airline sector to
prevent state-owned Aeroflot, Ural Airlines and Rossiya Airlines
from selling their unused landing slots at British airports.
"We've already closed our airspace to Russian airlines.
Today we're making sure they can't cash in their lucrative
landing slots at our airports," British Foreign Secretary Liz
Truss said in a statement.
The British government said it estimated the landing slots
were worth 50 million pounds ($61.9 million).
($1 = 0.8079 pounds)
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Muvija M; editing by Michael
Holden)
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