On: EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies

[helsinkiandrew]

I wasn't sure how big Belarusian airlines was, but their summer 2021 timetable shows a number of flights to Europe:

https://en.belavia.by/webroot/delivery/files/TimeTable_en_s2...

They appear to have 30 planes split between Boeing and Embraer:

https://en.belavia.by/company/air_fleet/

[iso1631 → helsinkiandrew]

A lot of planes fly Belarus - Egypt, which means flying through Greek/Cyprus airspace.

Will be interesting if Ukraine and/or Turkey responds, as flights from Belarus to Istanbul would be effected too. Ukraine (and Turkey) are part of Eurocontrol, but not part of the EU.

Obviously Belarus will still be flying east to Russia

[shantara → iso1631]

Ukraine just announced they are stopping all air traffic with Belarus from tomorrow on.

[chmod775 → helsinkiandrew]

According to their website they're already cancelling flights and apparently their customer support is overloaded with calls right now.

So there's that.