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Time to close Belarus airspace for western traffic IMO.
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
Time to close Belarus airspace for western traffic IMO.
- Ekaros 5y agoDon't think that is exactly practical for many flights... Specially around Eastern Europe...
- raverbashing 5y agoAt some point, it doesn't matter. Qatar was doing massive detours a couple of years ago to keep flying (of course money wasn't an issue for them) But detouring Bielorussia might be even cheaper than forced landings, who knows.
- rebuilder 5y agoWho would want to fly over Belarus now?
- arodyginc 5y agoI have no problem flying over there, lol
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoProbably lots of other individual people too. Perhaps the bigger question is which airlines would want to. Unless Ryanair's reputation takes a big hit, I'm guessing the answer is all of them.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoIt wasn't practical for MH17 to fly around the Donbass either but it would have prevented a terrible tragedy. And there flights weren't even officially targeted. This flight was intercepted by an armed military jet. From there it can quickly escalate in the event of a misunderstanding.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoFor the specific flight in question that would've been around 60km or 5 minute detour.
- leot 5y agoThis and more: ground all flights in and out until the journalist is released.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoFor the sanction to really bite, would need to block not just air travel, but people. Otherwise diplomats from Belarus could just fly to e.g. Russia first, and from there to wherever they were going.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoThere's a train between Belarus and Kaliningrad going thru Lithuania. Detain every single passenger for rest of the year.
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- angry_octet 5y agoBetter still, only detain connected people from Belarus.
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