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, the EU Observer 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.
The 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 execute them to stop flights to Minsk, von der Leyen added.
Most of the “trade” is done by the Belarusian airline Belavia, which is already banned in the EU.
However, data from the airport in Minsk showed on Tuesday that the Turkish national airline Turkish Airlines, which is popular among tourists from the EU, still flies migrants from Istanbul to Minsk twice a day, despite the border crisis. FlyDubai, the Emirati cheap airline, and Syrian Cham Wings also brought in people.
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