UK airline blacklist

[aaron]

The Gambia Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has reacted swiftly to a controversial list of airlines from eight countries including The Gambia, banned from flying in UK air space for not meeting up to international flight standards.

In a statement disputing the Gambia's inclusion hours after the BBC published the list of countries affected by the air embargo, the GCAA said it was clarifying that "the ban which was imposed over ten years ago only affects aircraft registered in The Gambia, but not airlines operating from Banjul".The country's aviation authority was quick to point out that "all existing flights out of Banjul to the United Kingdom are not in any way affected by this development".According to the BBC the naming follows the Flash Airline crash in Egypt two weeks ago, coupled with the revelation that the Swiss had banned Flash from its airspace before the airline disaster that claimed more than one hundred lives.

According to the BBC aside from those operating in The Gambia all aircraft operated by airlines from Equatorial Guinea, Liberia and Tajikistan have also been banned. Others blacklisted include Sierra Leone's Star Air and Air Universal, Cameroon Airlines, Albanian Airlines and Central Air Express, from DR Congo. British authorities made it clear that Britain has a "rigorous safety regime" for air travel and cannot entertain airlines that had failed to meet important international air safety regulations.

Aaron
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