Sabre, a single of the most significant airline ticket scheduling organizations in the globe, is terminating its distribution arrangement with Russian air carrier Aeroflot, the organization announced Thursday. The go could further limit Russian air travel, which has now noticed its planes banned from most Western countries’ airspace.

Condition-owned Aeroflot is the flag carrier and the greatest airline in the Russian Federation. The airline has about 200 aircraft in its fleet and travels to 146 places around the entire world. Remaining shut out of on line scheduling application could make it challenging for the airline to work domestically.

Sabre mentioned it is getting “immediate steps” to get rid of Aeroflot from its international distribution method, which is utilized by vacation businesses, travel internet sites, and firms all-around the globe to store, ebook, and provider flight reservations.

“Sabre has been checking the evolving scenario in Ukraine with escalating concern. From the commencing, our most important concentration has been the safety of our crew customers in the impacted location, as nicely as carrying out our part to assist the substantially-wanted reduction attempts,” said Sean Menke, CEO of Sabre, in a statement. “We are getting a stand in opposition to this armed forces conflict. We are complying, and will carry on to comply, with sanctions imposed versus Russia. In addition, now we introduced that Sabre has terminated its distribution agreement with Aeroflot, removing its content material from our GDS.”

Sabre is also donating $1 million to the Polish Pink Cross to assistance reduction efforts, as superior quantities of Ukrainian refugees continue on to stream throughout the border.

The US, Canada, and European Union nations have joined collectively to ban Russian planes from their airspace. Russian President Vladimir Putin is anticipated to reply with a similar measure, prohibiting planes from those nations from his country’s airspace. Flights could take longer as they re-route all over restricted airspace, but aviation professionals say Russia is most likely to bear the brunt of the closures.

Prior to the invasion, Aeroflot had routes into Miami, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC, and had been traveling over US and Canadian airspace to places in the Caribbean. These flights to and from the US are now banned and Aeroflot will have to reroute flights to get to well known vacation locations.

Now that it is cut off from Sabre’s reservation software, Aeroflot will have a considerably tougher time working domestic flights as perfectly. There have been other repercussions much too, with Airbus and Boeing asserting the suspension of sections and services to the Russian fleet, proficiently cutting off servicing aid to Russian airways.

Amadeus IT Group, which delivers ticket-booking computer software for Russia’s S7 and Ural Airlines, issued its possess assertion shortly soon after the information about Sabre went community. The enterprise says it is in the course of action of winding down its associations with Russian air carriers.

“We will not signal any new contracts in Russia and we carry on to consider our present portfolio of perform in Russia in parallel,” a spokesperson for the organization claimed. “We can validate that we have begun suspending the distribution of Aeroflot fares in our units. At the exact time, we go on to evaluate and appraise the opportunity affect of international sanctions imposed on Russia and any counter-steps by Russia.”

Update March 3rd, 11:13AM ET: Updated to include things like a assertion from Amadeus IT Group.