Carriers have been asked to block BlaBlaCar in Russia

6 November 2018

Company's unhappy with profits

Astrakhan company "TRANS Line", dealing with bus transportation, filed a lawsuit to block in Russia BlaBlaCar. In the rush she's not alone: the suit was joined by almost 30 applicants. Among them was the bus stations that are reporting large losses due to illegal operators.

As reports Kommersant, the authors of the lawsuit asking to ban the work of the service of BlaBlaCar search for travel companions, and the website of the company to amend the list of prohibited resources.

representatives of the "TRANS Line" report that BlaBlaCar violates the rights of the company as the carrier, which leads to losses. In particular, we are talking about buying through the service tickets for the flight Astrakhan—Moscow. Transportation of passengers by illegal carriers.

to convince the investigation and to exaggerate, the plaintiff is even said that through BlaBlaCar in Russia creates "an enabling environment for trafficking of prohibited means and objects with which persons with criminal intent have the ability to commit terrorist acts".

Two weeks ago, the Prosecutor's office of Bryansk demanded BlaBlaCar to prevent commercial traffic of illegal taxis and buses and block the profiles of drivers. General Director of "Maple 2", BlaBlaCar partner, Alexander Sergeyev said that the violations were the result of mistakes of the managers of the company, which had posted information about the flights.

the Lawyers are of the opinion that the method of legalization of commercial flights using BlaBlaCar has not yet been found.