EU sanctions force Aeroflot to suspend low cost airline
6 August 2014EU sanctions targeting Russia over its role in Ukraine’s conflict have hit Aeroflot’s low-cost domestic airline Dobrolet, forcing it to cancel all its flights because of scrapped leasing deals for Boeing aircraft.
Dobrolet said in a statement on its website that “‘due to the sanctions imposed by the EU we are forced to temporarily suspend flights on all routes from August 4, 201’4”.
Dobrolet, unveiled late last year as a budget airline for domestic Russian destinations, carried out its first flight in June, from Moscow to Simferopol.
