Perhaps it would be fun to log some of the “random” things I learn while browsing Wikipedia. Today’s lesson: A commercial airline can be banned from entering the airspace of the entire European Union. This is done if your airline is “operating below essential safety levels.” So it’s perhaps a bit different from getting banned from a blog or from all Woolworth’s (can’t find a relevant YouTube clip, unfortunately).
Most of the airlines on the list are based in African countries. Also included are air carriers based in Central Asia, North Korea, and Indonesia. Every airline regulated by the relevant Indonesian authorities is banned from EU airspace, in fact.
Path taken: DC-9, UM Airlines, List of air carriers banned in the European Union.
