U.S. fines Emirates $400,000 for flying over Iranian airspace

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U.S. fines Emirates $400,000 for flying over Iranian airspace

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The U.S.


By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters)The U.S. Transportation Division stated Thursday it fined Emirates airline EMIRA.UL $400,000 for working flights in components of prohibited Iranian airspace in 2019.

The flight was carrying the JetBlue Airways JBLU.O code and due to this fact topic to U.S. laws. The division stated for 19 days in July 2019, Emirates operated flights over components of Iranian airspace, despite the fact that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration had barred flights due to heightened army actions and elevated political tensions.

Emirates advised the division the difficulty was a results of an “inadvertent oversight” however “agreed to this settlement within the curiosity of resolving this matter.”

Emirates should pay $200,000 of the nice inside 120 days. The rest will probably be waived if it has no additional violations inside one yr.

Emirates advised the division it had suspended all flight operations within the designated Iranian airspace besides twice-daily service to Tehran “for a restricted time interval, at a big price to Emirates.”

Emirates famous in a press release that the flight restrictions apply solely on flights the place it “transported passengers ticketed beneath a US air service’s designator code.” The airline added it “takes its regulatory compliance duties extraordinarily severely.”

(Reporting by David Shepardson Enhancing by Chizu Nomiyama and Richard Chang)

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