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Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
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Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#12But Ryanair havent
https://www.flightradar24.com/RYR7BJ/27cf72bf
FR3340 flying from Pafos, Cyprus to Tallin, Estonia, is about to cross from Ukraine into Belarus airspace
A route avoiding Belarus would have added at 56 miles to the 1740 mile journey, about 3%.
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#13This 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 regi…
This has also been set in motion:
https://i.redd.it/elts5rgbg0171.jpg
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#14And, yet, we didn’t do this to Austria (or any of the other countries in Europe that cancelled use of the airspace) when the plane suspected to be carrying Snowden (but wasn’t, and was actually carrying a head of state) was forced down in Vienna based on a phone call from the US, to be swatted upon landing.
Only the “bad guys” are terrorists when they do this.
The double standard here in the west is astounding. The precise same actions are either non-news or “terrorism” simply depending on the state performing the action.
Well, in any case, I take heart in any case that some people aren’t going to seem to get away with doing this.
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#15This 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 regi…
This has also been set in motion: https://i.redd.it/elts5rgbg0171.jpg
Worth noting that the EU has banned entire nations (such as Kazakhstan and others) from flying in EU airspace before for not meeting safety expectations. It is absolutely within possibility to ban Belarus for an overt Chicago convention violation.
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#16This affects me directly since i am working outside of Belarus now and rely on air travel to visit my family, still this feels like the only reasonable answer to KGB messing with airlines. I am expecting that most planes to Belarus, from EU are going to be cancelled and people will have to reroute their travel through Moscow.
In general it is terrifying how far my country went down the path of turning into another Turkmenistan\North Korea over the last 1 year+. Belarus was never a great example, of having fair courts ot great cops, but now it is just horrible. Half of my friends spent some time in jail, over the last year. Some were protesting actively, some wore clothing of "political colours" and were spotted by cops, some were arrested just because they were walking on the street and cops were in the mood to stir things up. Courts turned into a show where no matter how you were arrested or what was the basis for your arrest, you will get a fine and a few weeks (best case scenario - 15 days) in prison. Sadly, i feel that things are not going to get better anytime soon.
tldr: Donbass and Belarus. Fly around if you wanna live.
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#17This 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 regi…
Right now a broad ban on Belavia flights to Europe is a very likely outcome.
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#18And, yet, we didn’t do this to Austria (or any of the other countries in Europe that cancelled use of the airspace) when the plane suspected to be carrying Snowden (but wasn’t, and was actually carrying a head of state) was forced down in Vienna based on a phone call from the US, to be swatted upon landing. Only the “bad guys” are terrorists when they do this. The double standard here in the west is astounding. The p…
This claim is repeated again and again; yet the circumstances and the actual event (there was no forcing down) were very different; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27256946
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#19https://www.flightradar24.com/WZZ6285/27cf8309
From this flightradar track, it seems WizzAir is also doing this.
Ryanair is not though :-)
Re: Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
#20And, yet, we didn’t do this to Austria (or any of the other countries in Europe that cancelled use of the airspace) when the plane suspected to be carrying Snowden (but wasn’t, and was actually carrying a head of state) was forced down in Vienna based on a phone call from the US, to be swatted upon landing. Only the “bad guys” are terrorists when they do this. The double standard here in the west is astounding. The p…
Yes. Because EU countries sent fighter jets and claimed a fake bomb threat to forcibly take control of the plane. Get out of here with that bullshit.