European regulators maintain strict oversight to ensure carriers operating within EU airspace meet international safety standards, including those of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Those who fail to do so will find themselves banned from operating in European skies. As of 9 June, that list now contains 154 airlines. The latest update from the EU Air Safety List (ASL), the 48th of its kind, saw Air Express Algeria added.
The decision was based on “serious safety concerns,” which found “shortcomings in the airlines’ compliance with international safety standards,” the European Commission said in a press release.
Air Express is now part of 126 airlines across 16 different countries on the ASL due to inadequate safety oversight by the respective national aviation authorities.
In Afghanistan, Armenia, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Suriname and Tanzania, all carriers certified by local authorities are banned from operating in Europe.
