The head of Belavia spoke about the “neighbors” who decided to cash in on its blocking

After the emergency landing of a Ryanair plane in MINSK and the detention of Protasevich, a number of countries banned Belavia flights. The HEAD of the airline called it "meanness", on which the neighbors decided to "make money" Igor Cherginets

A number of countries, including Great Britain, France, Lithuania and the United States , actually imposed sanctions against Belavia without waiting for the start of an international investigation into the incident with the Ryanair aircraft, Igor Cherginets, CEO of the airline, said.

“This, of course, is a complete violation of the foundations of democracy. They are punishing the innocent Belavia, and even without really starting an investigation. meanness. Moreover, however, the neighbors decided, as always, to make money on this. But this is just not surprising, ”the CEO wrote on FACEBOOK.

According to Cherginets, Belavia has nothing to do with the emergency landing of the Ryanair airliner in Minsk.

Belavia canceled flights to Kaliningrad due to bans from European countries Politics

At the end of April, the CEO of Belavia, in an interview with RBC, called the principles of admission to the Russian market during the CORONAVIRUS pandemic “absolutely incomprehensible”. According to him, this is “particularly incomprehensible” in comparison with ground modes of transport. Aviation has introduced "strong measures to counter the coronavirus", for example, a flight requires a negative test result for covid-19 , Cherginets said. At the same time, “there is no such rigidity on the railway, it is not checked at all on the bus, it is not checked at all on individual transport.” At the same time, passengers are on the train or bus for about ten hours, and the Minsk-Moscow flight, for example, lasts about one hour, he noted.