French airline blacklist - still valid?
 

Does anyone know if the French have altered their banned airlines list since it was published? I can't find any update on www.dgac.fr

On 29 August 2005, France banned the following five airlines from entering its airspace:

* Air Koryo (North Korea)
* Air Saint Thomas (US)
* International Air Services (Liberia)_
* Lineas Aer de Mozambique (Mozambique); including its chartering partner Transairways_
* Phuket Airlines (Thailand)_

The Belgian blacklist, published on the same day, bans nine airlines:_

* Africa Lines (Republic of Central Africa)_
* Air Memphis (Egypt)_
* Air Van Airlines (Armenia)_
* Central Air Express (Democratic Republic of Congo)
* I.C.T.T.P.W. (Libya)_
* International Air Tours Limited (Nigeria)_
* Johnsons Air Limited (Ghana)_
* Silverback Cargo Freighters (Rwanda)_
* South Airlines (Ukraine)_

Due to different criteria, no airline appears on both lists, and no airline involved in recent crashes is on them either.

You've just hit on the key reason why blacklists are probably worthless. If no-one flies a blacklisted airline, then passengers only die on non-blacklisted airlines. QED