The European Commission has published the eighth update of the so-called blacklist of airlines that are banned from flying into the countries of the European Union due to safety concerns. The new list, which replaces the previous one, can already be consulted on the Commission’s website.

The Community list imposes a ban on all carriers from Equatorial Guinea, Indonesia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Gabon save for Gabon Airlines and Afrijet, whose operations are frozen to the current level. In addition, 8 individual carriers' operations are fully banned in the European Union.

The European Commision reviewed this list last april 2008 in order to include the Ukraine Cargo Airways.

The updated list of blacklist of airlinescan be found at the Directorate-General for Energy and Transport web site.