US fines Emirates €1.6 million for flights that passed too low over Iraq
The fine involves a “significant number” of flights from December 2021 to August 2022 that passed over Iraq on their way between the United States and the United Arab Emirates. UAE-based Emirates was fined in 2020 for similar flights and agreed not to repeat the same violation. JetBlue and Emirates had an arrangement called code-sharing in which the New York-based carrier sold seats on Emirates flights as if they were its own planes. The United States lets foreign airlines operate flights sold under the name or code of a US airline if they obey Federal Aviation Administration restrictions when...