Global airline blacklist to be ready soon

A global blacklist for unsafe airlines will be set up soon, said France's Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau yesterday.

On Thursday the head of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao) had rejected the European Union's proposal for such a list saying that discouraging passengers from using particular aircraft or airline would not necessarily reduce accidents. But Bussereau said he thought one would be created.

"I think that we will quickly end up with a global blacklist," he said.

European Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani said he would propose the creation of a global blacklist after it emerged that a Yemenia airliner that crashed near Comoros on June 30 had previously raised safety concerns during EU checks.

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