Originally Posted by
Stranger
But those would have arrived after the grace period given in the ban. No such a thing here apparently. As of yet at least.
Apparently, it depends on the ban etc. EASA mentioned here
QUOTES:
"The various grounding decisions are a mystery to me. Last night, a pair of Smartwings 737Max aircraft failed to complete their flights to Prague. One diverted into Tunis while the other returned from Turkish air space to its origin in Dubai. I made the assumption then that this maybe because they were not going to be allowed into European air space. Now, this morning, I see another Smartwings 737Max en route from Vilnius to Prague.
I also noticed that despite the ban from Indian air space, there was more than one Spicejet 737Max in and around India and this morning there was another couple of them heading for Indian airports, including 1 domestic flight. When is a ban not a ban?"
"Without passengers they can fly anywhere anytime I believe ?"
"Not correct - you need to look at the directives that have been issued by each specific State or bloc, relating both to the aircraft type and to use of the States' airspace by those types."
"The EASA ban allows for 3 re-positioning flights, without passengers, to allow the planes to be in a position to work on any modifications required."
"The EASA restriction, as I noted several posts back, does not apply to positioning flights back to base, only to commercial services."
"The EASA directive bans the type from taking off landing or Entering EU airspace with or without passengers."
https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/...africa-50.html