In Crimea only accept Moscow flights

Transport situation in Crimea, somewhat improved last week, now again became extremely tense. In particular, at the airport Simferopol canceled all flights, except Moscow, reports. Travel.ru.

Other routes, the main among which - Kiev and Istanbul not function. The railway is still working fine, but arriving in Crimea from other regions Ukraine or from the Russia passengers at the station waiting for checking documents and baggage. With the connivance of the police inspection is carried out, unknown, unknown powers that call themselves warriors.

Recall that for about a half weeks of similar strange control over input and on the roads linking the Crimea with the rest of Ukraine. Now there are checkpoints, with both parties. In addition, there are reports that the Russian military or some Crimean forces mined the surrounding fields.

The current situation can be a partial prototype of the future of transport Crimea if he somehow actually separates from the Ukraine. In particular, it is possible that the flights in the Crimea in this scenario will be possible only from Russia.

As you know, in world practice there existed special regimes of flights on the territory separated from the main part of the country due to the intervention or civil wars. Among such territories, for example, Taiwan and Northern Cyprus.

In Taiwan's case China many years forbade any airlines flights at its airports if they did flights on a breakaway from him Taiwan. In the end, a number of carriers have had to create ersatz-airline for flights to Taiwan. These were, in particular, KLM Asia, Air France Asie, British Asia Airways, Swissair Asia and others. It is possible that with similar measures Ukrainian authorities some special Crimean carriers will have to create in Russia.

In the case of Northern Cyprus, which was occupied by Turkish troops in 1974, there is a ban on direct flights to its airports. Any flight must have an intermediate landing in the territory of Turkey. In fact, foreign carriers do not fly to Northern Cyprus, the message is secured only by Turkish airlines.

Thus, tourists, intending in the future to travel separated from the Ukraine, the Crimea, it should be borne in mind the possibility of part of the transport blockade of the Peninsula. However, it can be not only the air, but also terrestrial. Now all land routes from Crimea are only in the rest of Ukraine, in Russia there is only a ferry.

There may be other restrictions. In particular, Cyprus considers illegal entry into North Cyprus from Turkey and denying entry to its territory to travellers possessing a passport stamp of Northern Cyprus. Even more rigid position Georgia towards tourists, whose passports are stamps of border crossings between Russia and Abkhazia and Russia and South Ossetia. The border crossing at these places Georgian authorities consider it illegal and when getting later in Georgia holders of such passports facing jail.
/Travel.ru/

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