The Commission for Exceptional Situations assessed all the risks and decided to permit flights through one corridor only – to Romania. The flights to the Russian Federation weren’t permitted as the risks to civil aviation operations due to the military actions in Ukraine persist, Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița said when she was asked about the impediments that prevent the operation of flights to Russia, IPN reports.
“On the very first day of the war, we were asked to close the national airspace owing to risks to civil aviation. Assessing these risks now, after a period since the closure of the airspace, the Commission decided to open only one corridor, to Romania,” Premier Gavrilița stated in a news conference.
When the war broke out in Ukraine on February 24, the Republic of Moldova decided to close the airspace so as to avoid risks to civil flights. On March 21, a section of the national airspace was opened to civil and state flights. As the airspace of Ukraine remains closed and flights to the North, South and East are not possible, all the flights are operated to and from Romania.
