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For airlines, one of the most alarming aspects of the forced landing in Belarus to seize a journalist is how easily it was done.
Restarting international travel amid a faltering recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic will be difficult enough as it is. The threat of a new era of state-sponsored hijacking will make it a whole lot more challenging.
The raw truth behind the incident Sunday is that the military controls the skies, and civilians are only there as guests. If governments and the air forces they control choose to violate the freedoms on which we depend to get from place to place, there’s very little that carriers can do about it.