European airlines respond to the forced landing of a commercial flight in Belarus.
A Ryanair jet, which was diverted to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, leading airlines to suspend flights through Belarus airspace.Credit.Andrius Sytas/Reuters
May 25, 2021, 10:01 a.m. ET
More airlines responded on Tuesday to the brazen decision over the weekend by Belarus’s president to force a commercial flight to land in an effort to arrest a dissident journalist.
Fallout was swift as the country’s strongman president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, drew reprimands and flight bans from countries and airlines around the world.
The European Union on Monday called on airlines based in the bloc to stop flying over Belarus as it also worked to ban the country’s airlines from flying over E.U. airspace. Britain imposed similar restrictions, while several major airlines said they would stop traversing the country altogether, effectively severing Belarus’s direct air connections to Western Europe.
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