Belavia, the state-owned airline of Belarus, will resume flying between Minsk and Türkmenbaşy from the end of October 2022. Due to the air space closures, you have to fly detours.
There are currently no plans to fly regularly according to the classic flight plan. Rather, it is about individual course pairs that are to be served with Embraer 195. Currently, the outbound flights are scheduled to depart from Minsk on the following dates: October 25, 2022, November 1, 2022, November 15, 2022, November 29, 2022, December 13, 2022 and December 27, 2022. The return flights are scheduled to depart from Türkmenbaşy be carried out on the following day. Beyond the last-mentioned date, the sale of possible further flights has not yet been opened.
The airline Belavia is currently in the European Union and some other states with an airspace closure. This became one operated by Buzz in the wake of the stopover forced by the Lukashenko regime Ryanair machine enacted. A dissident blogger was arrested in Minsk. One investigation conducted by ICAO revealed, among other things, that the pilots were forced to land under false pretenses.
The Belavia fleet has shrunk since this incident, as sanctions have resulted in some Lessors terminating their contracts and phasing out the aircraft. New orders were also no longer delivered. Officially, the Belarusian carrier operates two Boeing 737-300s, one B737-800, one B737 Max-8, five B737-800s, one B737-800BBJ, one B767-300ER, one Challenger 850, one Embraer 170, and four Embraer 195s Many machines have not been in operation for a long time.