{"id":416841,"date":"2021-05-26T08:36:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T03:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416841"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T03:26:07","slug":"eu-to-cut-air-links-with-belarus-following-flight-diversion-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-to-cut-air-links-with-belarus-following-flight-diversion-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to cut air links with Belarus following flight diversion incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the European Union (EU) member states have agreed to cut the bloc&#8217;s air links with Belarus following Sunday&#8217;s Ryanair flight diversion incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the conclusions of the special EU summit on Monday, the 27-member bloc strongly condemned the incident which endangered aviation safety and called on the International Civil Aviation Organization to urgently investigate &#8220;this unprecedented and unacceptable incident&#8221;, Xinhua news agency reported <\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the member states urged the European Council to adopt the necessary measures to ban overflight of EU airspace by Belarusian airlines; prevent access to bloc&#8217;s airports of Belarusian flights; and called on all EU-based carriers to avoid overflight of Belarus, according to the conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the European Union (EU) member states have agreed to cut the bloc&#8217;s air links with Belarus following Sunday&#8217;s Ryanair flight diversion incident. According to the conclusions of the special EU summit on Monday, the 27-member bloc strongly condemned the incident which endangered aviation safety and called on the International Civil Aviation Organization to urgently investigate &#8220;this unprecedented and unacceptable incident&#8221;, Xinhua news agency reported Leaders of the member states urged the European Council to adopt the necessary measures to ban overflight of EU airspace by Belarusian airlines; prevent access to bloc&#8217;s airports of Belarusian flights; and called on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}