As of 9 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday, Russian aircraft are prohibited from entering U.S. airspace. President Biden announced he was ordering that in his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Aeroflot passengers planes are seen parked at Sheremetyevo Airport, outside Moscow, on Tuesday. Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, said Monday that it suspended flights to New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles because Canada had closed its airspace to Russian planes.
Any aircraft operators who violate the ban on entering U.S. airspace"may be intercepted, and their pilots and other crewmembers detained and interviewed by law enforcement or security personnel, as appropriate." An Aeroflot flight from Miami to Moscow on Sunday violated Canada's ban on Russian overflights. Canadian air traffic control authorities told Reuters that Aeroflot had declared the flight as a"humanitarian" mission.
"It's very few passenger flights. And the cargo flights that are affected are spending a little more time in the air, but most of these flights are still able to operate," he said. "So you're spending a little more time in the air, you're burning a little more fuel," but the flights can continue to operate.
Petchenik says Lufthansa's flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo, for example, which used to loop high over Russia's polar region, now has take a much longer path through south Asia. So a flight that used to take under 10 hours now takes nearly 13 hours.
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