The European Union has removed all Indonesian airlines from its safety blacklist in an acknowledgement of their attempts to improve poor safety standards.  The bloc banned all Indonesia-based airlines from flying in its airspace in 2007 amid a string of accidents and reports of worsening safety standards following the deregulation of the country’s aviation industry in the late 1990s.  Over the years, the EU has lifted the prohibition on seven carriers, including state-owned Garuda and its low-cost subsidiary Citilink, budget airlines Lion Air and AirAsia. Indonesia’s domestic aviation sector has long had a patchy record. One recent incident was in late December 2014 when an AirAsia aircraft crashed into the Java Sea en route from Indonesia to Singapore, killing all 162 passengers on board.