Belarus, with EU sanctions, planes dribble the skies of Minsk: longer and more expensive flights

The EU closes the skies over Belarus to air traffic after the “hijacking” of the Ryanair flight, with a move that extends the duration of some connections between Europe, Asia and Russia by up to 100 minutes and that will increase the number of fuel costs for companies. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) yesterday wrote a letter to all the airlines of the old continent “strongly discouraging” the overflight of the Minsk airspace for safety reasons after a Mig-29 of the aviation Alexander Lukashenko forced an Irish low-cost plane en route from Athens to Vilnius to land in the capital to arrest the journalist Roman Protasevich.