Turkish airline Southwind Airlines is embarrassed by the fact that the United States banned it from flying to Russia on American Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. Sanctions may be imposed against the company and a ban on servicing aircraft abroad. This is reported by Russian media.

Although there are no Southwind aircraft on the latest sanctions list, which the Bureau of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce released on March 3.

Southwind Airlines is a Turkish charter airline, which was created by Pegas Touristik travel holding in 2022 to transport Russians to Turkish resorts.. The airline's fleet partially consists of former aircraft of the Russian Nordwind Airlines (part of the Pegas Touristik holding).

Three Boeing 737 MAXs in the Southwind Airlines fleet. Flights to Russia have recently been made by two of them. Both are owned by US lessor Air Lease Corporation.. In particular, the planes made 10? 12 round trips per week to Ufa, Samara, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Kaliningrad and Nizhny Novgorod. Since June 1, they have been transferred to flights to Germany and Switzerland.

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Recall that due to the war of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the United States and the EU imposed sanctions on the Russian aviation industry. Planes of Russian airlines began to be arrested abroad and denied maintenance. As a result, most of Boeing and Airbus do not leave the territory of the Russian Federation and make only domestic flights..

In Russia, there are daily emergencies with civil aviation aircraft, on January 13, in St. Petersburg, at Pulkovo airport, the plane could not take off.