Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
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#2In case you missed, yesterday a plane flying from Athens to Vilnius was intercepted by Belarusian fighter jet and a helicopter and landed in Minsk, to arrest an opposition journalist.
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#3In case you missed, yesterday a plane flying from Athens to Vilnius was intercepted by Belarusian fighter jet and a helicopter and landed in Minsk, to arrest an opposition journalist. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57219860
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#4In case you missed, yesterday a plane flying from Athens to Vilnius was intercepted by Belarusian fighter jet and a helicopter and landed in Minsk, to arrest an opposition journalist. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57219860
The diverted plane has been discussed here yesterday at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255561 .
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#6Apart from fuel prices, is there any economic impact? Do air carriers pay anything to the countries they fly over? (dunno, covering ATC costs?)
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#7Apart from fuel prices, is there any economic impact? Do air carriers pay anything to the countries they fly over? (dunno, covering ATC costs?)
https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-charge-foreign-air...
Yes it costs to fly through a country's airspace.
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#8This will likely have no consequences to the regime in Belarus, while increasing costs to these Baltic airlines.
A policy that might achieve something would be if the Baltic states, together with Poland and Ukraine, would close their airspace to Belavia planes, until the detained passenger is delivered to his destination in Vilnius.
This will increase costs to Belarusian airlines, which would be a problem to the regime.
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#9Sounds like a good idea.
Though this trick (of capturing a dissident by forcing a plane down) probably only works once.
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#10https://www.flightradar24.com/WZZ6285/27cf8309
From this flightradar track, it seems WizzAir is also doing this.