Air France and Lufthansa cancel most of their flights to Ukraine

Airlines follow in KLM’s footsteps as a precautionary measure, as Kiev maintains its airspace is ‘safe’

The climate of tension due to the possible conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to grow in Eastern Europe. After numerous countries advised their nationals to leave the Ukrainian country, now more airlines decide to cancel their scheduled flights with this country. Specific, air France and the group Lufthansa have temporarily suspended their flights to Ukraine.

air France announced on Monday the cancellation of two flights between Paris and Kiev scheduled for Tuesday because of the situation in Ukraine and “as a precautionary measure”. The company has pointed out that “will periodically reassess the situation” and has stressed that “the safety of its flights, its customers and its crews is an absolute imperative”.

Until now, the French airline operated two weekly return flights between the capitals of France and Ukraine, on Tuesdays and Sundays.

Lufthansa will fly to Lviv

Also, the Lufthansa group has also temporarily canceled most of its flights to Ukraine since this Monday, due to the increase in tensions in the country. Specifically, German airlines Lufthansa and Eurowingsthe Austrian Austrian Airlinesthe Switzerland Swiss and the Belgian Brussels Airlines will cancel regular flights to Kiev and Odessa until the end of February. Nevertheless, will maintain trips to Lviv (Lviv)city in western Ukraine.

Lufthansa airlines flew to Kiev and Lviv; Swiss was traveling to Kiev; Austrian Airlines to Kiev, Lviv and Odessa and Eurowings to Kiev. A week ago, the group decided to maintain flights to their destinations in Ukraine, but has now changed its policy fearing that the deployment of Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine is the prelude to a war.

In this way, Air France and the Lufthansa group They have followed in the footsteps of KLM, a Dutch airline that suspended “until further notice” flights between the Netherlands and Ukraine last week.

“Flights are safe”

About, Ukraine assured this Monday that the situation in the country’s airspace is under control and flights are safe. The Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakovstressed that “despite all the news about a worsening of the situation, Ukraine’s airspace remains open”.

“Today the situation in the Ukrainian airspace is stable and under control. flight safety is fully guaranteed“, Kubrakov maintained, while specifying that the only exception is constituted by airspace over the black seawhere “illegal (naval) exercises of the Russian Federation take place”.

Along the same lines, he stressed that “there are Ukrainian air communication with all key European cities thanks to operational contacts between Ukrainian and foreign companies”. In addition, he pointed out that his Ministry is maintaining negotiations to establish additional flights on the routes in which foreign companies have canceled theirs.

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