US fines Air Canada over flights over prohibited Iraqi airspace

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Updated 28 September 2024
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US fines Air Canada over flights over prohibited Iraqi airspace

  • Air Canada must pay $125,000 of the fine and owes another $125,000 if it violates the order again within a year.

WASHINGTON: The US Department of Transportation said Friday it had fined Air Canada $250,000 for operating flights in 2022 and 2023 in prohibited Iraqi airspace.
The agency had jurisdiction because those flights had United Airlines’ designator code. The violations occurred on numerous flights between the United Arab Emirates and Toronto in airspace that was prohibited by the Federal Aviation Administration to US operators.
Air Canada must pay $125,000 of the fine and owes another $125,000 if it violates the order again within a year. Air Canada stopped codesharing with United on the route in January 2023. Emirates was fined $1.5 million by the Transportation Department in June for operating flights carrying JetBlue Airways’ code over Iraqi airspace.

 

 

 


Zelensky to meet European leaders in Berlin Monday: Germany

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Zelensky to meet European leaders in Berlin Monday: Germany

BERLIN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to travel to Berlin on Monday and meet European leaders as well as the heads of the EU and NATO, German government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said.
Zelensky will attend a German-Ukrainian business forum and discuss “the status of peace negotiations in Ukraine” with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Kornelius said on Friday.
“In the evening, numerous European heads of state and government, as well as the leaders of the EU and NATO, will join the talks,” he said in a statement.
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be among the leaders attending the talks in Berlin, a UK government official said.
The meeting will be part of a flurry of diplomacy around a plan to end the conflict in Ukraine originally proposed by US President Donald Trump last month.
Ukrainian officials on Wednesday said they had sent Washington an updated version of the plan, building on Trump’s original 28-point proposal.