According to Bermudian daily newspaper, the Royal Gazette, the ban will only impact aircraft attempting to obtain registration overseas, and not planes and jets already registered and operating. But of the 360 planes registered in Bermuda approximately 220 operate in Russia, it reported.

Speaking on the matter, Thomas Dunstan, Director of Civil Aviation, told the Gazette that the ban was a different version of similar legislation in Bermuda and other jurisdictions.

"We have an aged aircraft programme in place for all aircraft older than 14 years. These aircraft undergo more scrutiny and maintenance. Our programme is similar to what the US Federal Aviation Association has in place. Russia has decided not to adopt that programme, but instead they have decided to just ban all foreign-registered aircraft older than 15 years," he explained.

However, he contradicted a report in the Russian newspaper Kommersant, saying that no aircraft were grounded in Bermuda as a result of the law change.

Kommersant stated in a report published on March 11th that one Russian airline, KD Avia, has two Boeing-737s "entrapped in the Bermudas" as a result of the moratorium, while another airline, Utair, is unable to import three ATR-72s.

The Kommersant report claimed that the ban had been imposed without the prior knowledge of the airlines.