What threatens Belarus with an air boycott because of the scandal with Ryanair The

EU will impose a blockade of Belarusian civil aviation due to the forced landing of a Ryanair flight. RBC understood the possible consequences of an air ban on transit through Belarus, as well as on European flights of the state -owned Belavia

The countries of the European Union will ban Belarusian airlines from using the airspace of European countries, said the HEAD of the European Council Charles Michel following the summit (held on the evening of May 24), which discussed the incident with the landing of a Ryanair plane in MINSK. The day before, May 23, the airline's ship, flying from Athens to Vilnius, was forced to change course and land in Belarus due to a bomb report on board. Information about this threat was not confirmed, but the landing of the plane turned into the detention of one of its passengers, Roman Protasevich , co-founder of the xxxxx TELEGRAM channel recognized as extremist in Belarus.

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“The summit instructs the Council of the EU to take the necessary measures to ban Belarusian carriers from flying in the airspace of the European Union and close access to the airports of [states] of the EU for flights operated by such airlines,” the final statement says. This decision is not yet in force, it must be agreed and approved by the EU Council at the ministerial level.

The EU decided not to accept flights of Belarusian airlines Politics

One of the first to react to the incident in Minsk was the Lithuanian government - it has already banned local airports from receiving and sending flights whose routes pass over the territory of Belarus. The largest Belarusian state-owned airline Belavia had to suspend flights to this country. The airBaltic airline, the largest carrier in the Baltic countries by the number of passengers, has refused both flights to Minsk and flights through Belarus. The decision to temporarily suspend flights over the territory of Belarus was also announced by the Dutch airline KLM.