Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with his European counterparts on prohibiting Aeroflot flights from operating in the territory and airspace of those countries.

The Secretary of State for Transport has had recent discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart. Officials from the Department for Transport have engaged with European counterparts on airspace restrictions. Following the UK’s decision to restrict UK airspace to all Russian aircraft (both scheduled and non-scheduled) on 25 February 2022, the European Union announced it would restrict all EU airspace to Russian aircraft from 27 February 2022.