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Philippines off EU airline blacklist Thailand trying to avoid
Even as Thailand looks down the barrel of worldwide aviation sanctions over its air-safety standards, the European Union has lifted its ban on Philippines-based carriers, allowing them to return to EU skies for the first time in five years.
"Red-flagged" earlier this month by the International Civil Aviation Organization after a failed audit of its Department of Civil Aviation, Thailand escaped an EU ban Thursday when the European Commission declined to place the country on its air-safety watch list.
Red-flagged Thailand will face its crucial FAA audit July 13.
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Thai carriers spared EU airspace ban
Thai-registered airlines have been spared from a ban on operating in European Union (EU) airspace as the European Commission (EC) did not impose any new curbs on airlines in its latest EU Air Safety List...
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