The company blames disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for the flights, which it calls accidental. The penalty will be halved if it avoids any similar transgressions for one year.
with a penalty of $1.05m after it found a"significant number" of the carrier's flights between the UK and India crossed restricted airspace in Iraq between September 2020 and September 2021.
At the time, the US Federal Aviation Administration banned US airlines' flights at any altitude because of"heightened militia activities and increased tensions inVirgin Atlantic was subject to FAA restrictions at the time, the department said, because it was operating in partnership with Delta Air Lines, the US firm which owns 49% of the British-based company.
The companies have a so-called code-sharing agreement in which Delta put its own"code" on some Virgin Atlantic flights and sold seats as if they were Delta airplanes.More on Iraq
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