Airline Wizz Air says it will suspend flights to the Moldovan capital from March 14 due to concerns about the safety of its airspace, a decision Moldova's civil aviation authority described as sudden and regrettable. Wizz Air said in a statement on February 27 it would add extra flights from the Romanian city of Iasi as replacements to the suspended flights to Chisinau. Tensions between Russia and Moldova have grown in recent months over Russian missiles aimed at Ukraine entering Moldovan airspace. To read the original story from Reuters, click here.
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