Originally Posted by
travelkid
This is not a political forum. Its a travel forum. We need to group airlines depending on where questions are most likely to be answered, and based on traffic. This is purely pragmatic.
Originally Posted by
apoivre
(Although then we'll have to include Estonian Air and Air Baltic - not sure if their patrons will appreciate)
Politics aside, from the practical point of view, including the airlines of the Baltic States in the 'Former SU' forum might not be such a luminous idea. The present day countries strongly identify themselves with Western Europe (they are part of the EU). At least to an European reader, looking for them at a 'Russia etc. airlines' forum might not even cross one's mind. Soviet Union has not existed for 20 years, and there's a young generation among which many probably don't even know that Baltics were once part of the SU (if they know what the SU was in the first place...) [Perhaps that's the reason nobody has commented on this before; it might not have occurred to a person interested in OV or BT that this proposal could concern them.]