Insight - We can’t afford a return to the cold war of aviation

Journalist seized: A Ryanair aircraft, which was carrying Belarusian opposition blogger Roman Protasevich and diverted to Belarus, where authorities detained him, lands at Vilnius Airport, Lithuania. — Reuters

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.