Budget Russian airline bans chewing gum

A Russian airline has supposedly banned chewing gum from its air ship because of the high cost of scratching off dried gum abandoned by fliers.

Pobeda, a low-cost subsidiary of the national carrier Aeroflot, says that clearing off the chewy treat expenses up to 100,000 rubles (generally $1,749) per piece, reports the Moscow Times.

"The boycott on chewing gum utilization has been set up subsequent to the center of June and is associated with misfortunes supported by the aircraft," Pobeda's press secretary Yelena Selivanova said.

The bearer, which was dispatched a year ago, is the nation's first spending plan aircraft. It confronted troubles amid its starting dispatch when E.U. firms from which the nation had rented planes, pulled contracts over the aircraft's service to Crimea. Presently the bearer no more travels to added area.

Pobeda, which signifies "triumph" in Russian, now works flights from Moscow to 17 urban communities across the nation.

Selivanova did not illuminate how the carrier will authorize the counter gum arrangement. No different aircrafts presently boycott gum yet a couple of urban areas, including Singapore, don't permit it.

So you better stock up on hard candies to forestall ear-popping at 30,000 feet.
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