Air traffic between Germany and Russia temporarily suspended on Wednesday after a dispute

The German landing ban for Russian aircraft was lifted on Wednesday evening, because Russia has still approved the German airline Lufthansa to fly to Moscow. That reports DPA . news agency. Earlier in the day, Germany’s transport ministry announced the ban in response to Russia’s refusal to land Lufthansa flights. Two Lufthansa flights could not take place on Wednesday morning due to the Russian decision.

Due to the German ban, aircraft of the Russian airlines Aeroflot and S7 were unable to fly to German airports on Wednesday. They would not be welcome again until Russia authorized Lufthansa flights to land. Lufthansa told AFP that it expects passenger flights from the airline to Russia “will be authorized soon” for the rest of June. The mirror reported that another Lufthansa flight was planned for Wednesday evening from Frankfurt am Main to Moscow.

Last week, flights from Austrian Airlines and Air France were also not allowed to fly to Russia. They wanted to fly in on an alternative route to avoid Belarusian airspace, but this was unsuccessful not allowed by the Russian authorities. European airlines have stopped flying over Belarus because the country forced a Ryanair plane with Belarusian dissident Roman Pratasevich on board to land and arrested him and his girlfriend.

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