Fly Kyrgyz (?)

Definitely not now! That's what European Commission Transport suggests. And for some years all airlines operating from Kyrgyzstan have been banned to enter European airspace. It's kinda both economic and emotional blow for me; economic because now I need to fly with some transits to get home (also I used to enjoy the comparingly low prices of these airlines), and emotional because it is sad to see that our airlines are among those from Sierra Leone, North Korea, Swaziland, Guinea, Congo, etc. Not that I am looking down on these countries. (Photo source: www.turkcards.com)

Here are the banned Kyrgyz Republic based airlines (more than half of them don't have their own airplanes, but they rent them);

1 AIR MANAS
2 ARTIK AVIA
3 ASIA ALPHA AIRWAYS
4 AVIA TRAFFIC COMPANY
5 BISTAIR-FEZ BISHKEK
6 CLICK AIRWAYS
7 DAMES
8 EASTOK AVIA
9 ESEN AIR
10 GOLDEN RULE AIRLINES
11 ITEK AIR
12 KYRGYZ TRANS AVIA
13 KYRGYZSTAN
14 KYRGYZSTAN AIRLINES
15 MAX AVIA
16 OHS AVIA
17 S GROUP AVIATION
18 SKY GATE INTERNATIONAL AVIATION
19 SKY WAY AIR
20 TENIR AIRLINES
21 TRAST AERO
22 VALOR AIR

(source: Ferghana.Ru)

So yeah, no Fly Kyrgyz for now :(

Full list of EU banned airlines here.

(Photo source: Airliners.Net)

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