Editing Ariana Afghan Airlines (section)

==== EU ban ====
Due to safety regulations, Ariana was mostly banned from flying into [[European Union]] airspace in {{start date|2006|3}}, with the [[European Commission]] allowing the carrier to fly only a single [[France]]-registered [[Airbus A310]] into the member states;<ref name="Painted Black: a study of the EU unsafe airlines ban" /><ref name="Africa bears brunt of European Union blacklist"/> the ban was extended to the entire fleet in October of that year.<ref name="EC updates blacklist"/> The ban was confirmed in subsequent updates of the list released in late 2009 and {{start date|2010|3}}.<ref name="Other News - 12/01/2009" /><ref name="New EU blacklist features Iran Air, Philippine carriers"/> In {{start date|2010|11}}, all Afghanistan-registered aircraft were banned from operating in the European Union.<ref name="New airlines added to EU blacklist"/><ref name="EC bans Afghan airlines from European airspace"/> Ariana is still included in the list {{as of|2024|12|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite web|title= The EU Air Safety List|publisher= European Commission|date= 13 December 2024|url= https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/3195fabb-7575-4db9-85b9-ec5a77b481aa_en?filename=air-safety-list-2024-12-13_en.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250107125420/https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/3195fabb-7575-4db9-85b9-ec5a77b481aa_en?filename=air-safety-list-2024-12-13_en.pdf|archive-date= 7 January 2025}}</ref>