Turkish Airlines and FlyDubai could be banned in the EU for flying migrants to Belarus after an attack on the Polish border blew up into an international incident, protothema.gr reports.
“The EU will … explore how to sanction, including through blacklisting, third-country airlines that are active in human trafficking,” EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday (8 November) after people tried to storm the Polish border earlier in the day.
Two top EU officials, Josep Borrell and Margaritis Schinas, will also travel to countries such as Armenia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates to press them to stop people flying to Minsk, von der Leyen added.
Belarusian airline Belavia, which is already banned in the EU, is doing most of the “trafficking”.
But Minsk airport data showed on Tuesday that Turkey’s national flag-carrier, Turkish Airlines, which is popular with EU tourists, was still flying migrants from Constantinople to Minsk twice a day despite the border crisis.
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