Originally Posted by daz211
The EU has again banned Kyrgyz airlines from landing in EU countries due to their poor safety standards. Some observers believe corruption is rampant within the airlines’ administrations and does not allow companies to develop and meet international maintenance and safety standards. Heads of the companies, however, disagree, saying many were not inspected by the EU prior to being blacklisted.
I'm not sure whether the words are your opinion or a quote from somewhere. However, I believe that the approach taken by the EU when compiling the so called blacklist is to look at the national aviation authority arrangements (at least in the first instance). If the CAA or whatever is not doing - or able to do - oversight against EU and international standards then there is no way of knowing whether individual operators are sound. Even if a quick check 'on the day' by EU inspectors were to show that everything is OK, without ongoing oversight at national level there is no guarantee that it will continue to be OK.
Sadly none of this changes anything for those on board.