Bloomberg Global airlines are going to great lengths to avoid Russian airspace but few to the extent of Finnair Oyj, the flag carrier of Finland. It’s flying thousands of miles around its northern neighbour, retracing routes abandoned decades ago at the end of the Cold War. The economic burden of those end-runs is measured in additional jet fuel burn, extended ...

  Bloomberg Serbia’s flag carrier will scale back flights to Moscow after criticism that it’s profiting from the service at a time when most other airlines stopped flying to Russia to comply with sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, President Aleksandar Vucic said. Air Serbia recently increased its Moscow flights to as many as three a day from one ...

Bloomberg Fast Retailing Co’s Uniqlo apparel chain said it will temporarily suspend operations in Russia, joining a growing list of global companies in curtailing their activities in the country after its invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. The move is a reversal after Fast Retailing founder Tadashi Yanai said clothing is a “necessity of life” and that Russians have “the same right ...