European companies were allowed to fly to Russia bypassing Belarus

Russia allowed the French Air France airline to fly along the route of Paris - Moscow - Paris bypassing the airspace of Belarus, TASS said in the company. The first similar flight flew out on the morning of May 29 from the Parisian airport Ruassi - Charles de Gaulle.

This flight was the first after a three -day break during which Air France was transported by the Russian Aeroflot passengers. The French airline explained that flights from Paris to Moscow from May 26 to 28 were canceled "for technical reasons" after the Russian side did not approve the flight plan bypassing the airspace of Belarus.

German Lufthansa also received permission to fly to the Russian Federation bypassing the airspace of Belarus, the airline’s press service told Interfax , noting that "Lufthansa had the necessary permits from the very beginning." The airline operates flights to Russia as a weekly: a weekly five flights to Moscow and four in St. Petersburg.

The Austrian company Austrian Airlines, which previously also had problems, received permission from Russia on a Saturday flight from Vienna to Moscow and back on an alternative route. The company noted that so far new routes need to be coordinated every day. “We still do not have permission to make a flight on Sunday, but we are sure that we will get it,” the representative of Austrian Airlines told RIA Novosti .

On the eve of the Federal Air Transport Agency explained the delay in issuing permits for flights from Europe by bypassing the airspace of Belarus by a large number of airline requests. The agency warned that "when changing previously approved routes from/in European points in/via the airspace of Russia, a possible increase in the execution of procedures should be taken into account to obtain permission to arrive, departure and flight by transit of the airspace of the Russian Federation."

European companies began to refuse flights in the airspace of Belarus after a forced landing in Minsk flight of the Irish airline Ryanair Athena - Vilnius and the detention of the former editor -in -chief of the Nexta Telegram channel Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, Russians Sofia Sapieha.

The Belarusian authorities claim that several airports, including Minsk, received a message about the threat of an airplane explosion over Vilnius, so the board was recommended urgently in Minsk. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the airports of Vilnius, Warsaw, Lviv and Kyiv allegedly refused to accept the plane.

Journalists found that Belarusian dispatchers told Ryanair about "mining" half an hour earlier than a letter with threats. In Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine, they did not confirm the receipt of requests for an emergency landing of the aircraft with Protasevich.