UK Sanctions Russian Airlines To Prevent Them Selling Landing Slots

LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it was introducing new sanctions against the Russian airline sector to prevent state-owned Aeroflot, Situs Judi Ural Airlines and Rossiya Airlines from selling their unused landing slots at British airports.

"We´ve already closed our airspace to Russian airlines. Today we´re making sure they can´t cash in their lucrative landing slots at our airports," British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement.

The British government said it estimated the landing slots were worth 50 million pounds ($61.9 million).

($1 = 0.8079 pounds) (Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Muvija M; editing by Michael Holden)

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