MIAMI – The European Union has approved a plan to ban Belarus airlines from flying over the EU or landing at bloc airports.
With the plan, European commercial aviation continues to be at the center of a diplomatic kerfuffle after Belarus forced a Ryanair (FR) Boeing 737 to divert to Minsk last week to arrest opposition journalist Roman Protasevich, who was on board an Athens-Vilnius segment.
According to
Reuters today, EU ambassadors also agreed that EU airlines should not fly over Belarus territory.
The latest tit-for-tat will affect about 400 civilian flights a day, according to Eurocontrol, the European traffic control agency. This includes 300 overflights – 100 of which are conducted by EU or British airlines, according to the
EAST HARTFORD, December 23, 2020 Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies Corp, and Belavia Belarusian Airlines have celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first Embraer E195-E2 aircraft. The aircraft was leased through AerCap and powered by Pratt & Whitney GTF engines and APS2600E auxiliary power unit (APU). “We are delighted to welcome the first GTF-powered E195-E2 aircraft to our growing fleet and the strengthening of our relationship with Pratt & Whitney,” said Anatoly Gusarov, Belavia CEO. “These new, state-of-the-art engines will allow us to better serve our customers while benefitting from lower fuel burn and a smaller environmental footprint.”
Belavia Embraer E195-E2. Photo: Embraer
LONDON – Belavia (B2) took delivery today of their first E2 next generation Embraer aircraft in Brazil. The new aircraft is the first of three E195-E2 jets to be leased to B2 by
AerCap.
The aircraft, configured in a comfortable dual class layout seating 125 passengers in total, seats 9 in business and 116 in economy.
The company plans to deploy their new aircraft on popular routes such as London, Barcelona, Nur-Sultan, Munich, Paris, Sochi, and Amsterdam.
Belavia Embraer E195-E2. Photo: Embraer
Statement from Belavia
Anatoly Gusarov, CEO of B2, said, “B2’s passengers love our current Embraer aircraft and I hope they will love the next generation E2 even more. The E2 offers B2 lower operating costs, as well as the lowest impact on the environment.”