The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has downgraded Russia's air safety rating to Category 2, thus banning any US carriers from codesharing with Russian operators.
"Russia’s Federal Agency for Air Transport [Rosaviatsia] does not comply with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety standards," the FAA assessed.
The decision also means that Russian airlines will not be able to launch new routes to the United States, although this is moot as, for the time being, US airspace remains closed to all Russian-operated aircraft due to sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. Due to retaliatory sanctions, US airlines are also banned from Russian airspace.
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) terminated its codeshare agreement with Skyteam partner Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo) shortly after the invasion began on February 24, 2022. Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma International) and American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) followed suit with a similar step towards their Oneworld partner S7 Airlines (S7, Novosibirsk) (which has since been suspended from the alliance). No other US carrier codeshares with any Russian airline.
The current list of Category 2 territories also comprises Bangladesh, Curacao, Ghana, Malaysia, Mexico, all territories under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and St. Kitts & Nevis), Pakistan, Thailand, and Venezuela.
