Skyscanner stopped selling tickets to Crimea

The largest air ticket search service, Skyscanner, has stopped selling tickets to Crimea since June 28. attention to this . drew Kommersant

In particular, tickets to Simferopol disappeared from the system’s search results.

The press service of the Russian division of Skyscanner suggested in a conversation with RBC that the reason was due to technical problems with the service.

“As a press office, we have no information at this time,” Skyscanner said .

Sources from RBC and Kommersant suggested that the disappearance of tickets to Crimea is related to anti-Russian sanctions.

“US sanctions assume that if a business does not work directly with Crimean companies, then it is within the legal framework. But European sanctions are more severe: in order to avoid them, travel companies are forced to change jurisdictions,” a source told Kommersant.