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Maybe flying a Russian airline is a good way to insure you won't get shot down flying over Russian / Ukrainian airspace (which is hard to avoid if you're flying

Maybe flying a Russian airline is a good way to insure you won't get shot down flying over Russian / Ukrainian airspace (which is hard to avoid if you're flying Europe to Asia)

isostatic 8y ago
Majority of Europe-Asia (southwest, south, southeast) flights route via Turkey/Iraq/Gulf or Romainia/Black Sea/Georgia/Turkmenistan -- especially since MH17. Those heading to East Asia tend to fly over northern Russia, well away from Ukraine Here[0] are planes avoiding Ukraine [0] http://imgur.com/EbNXLpXl.png http://imgur.com/EbNXLpXl.png
- kenneth 8y ago
  Ukraine is a small country, easy to avoid. The GP was talking about Russia in general though, which is much harder to avoid. The traffic to East Asia is far greater and more important than that to Southeast.
  - isostatic 8y ago
    The last time a plane was shot down over Russian airspace was KE007 in 1983 International flight paths over Russia are a large source of money for the country, Russia isn't going to shoot down any airlines.
    - Yizahi 8y ago
      The fact that russian army shot down MH17 from occupied territory doesn't change much really.
      - isostatic 8y ago
        Correct. That was over Ukraine, and airlines responded by not routing over an active warzone If a plane were shot down over Siberia, planes would reroute away from Siberia, meaning Russia loses overfly money. Unless the scenario is that Russia comes out and says "we'll shoot down non-Russian airlines", in which case Russian airlines are no longer allowed to fly to other countries, and Russia is cut off from the rest of the world, and we go back to routing via Iran or Alaska (perhaps non-stop). It's an extra 1300 miles from London to Tokyo via those routes, 1200 miles to Beijing, 1000 to Shanghai, and only 600 miles to Hong Kong / Chengdu It'd be annoying, but not even as bad as when it was the USSR. Russia meanwhile would collapse economically.

Maybe flying a Russian airline is a good way to insure you won't get shot down flying over Russian / Ukrainian airspace (which is hard to avoid if you're flying Europe to Asia)

isostatic 8y ago

Majority of Europe-Asia (southwest, south, southeast) flights route via Turkey/Iraq/Gulf or Romainia/Black Sea/Georgia/Turkmenistan -- especially since MH17. Those heading to East Asia tend to fly over northern Russia, well away from Ukraine Here[0] are planes avoiding Ukraine [0] http://imgur.com/EbNXLpXl.png http://imgur.com/EbNXLpXl.png

kenneth 8y ago
Ukraine is a small country, easy to avoid. The GP was talking about Russia in general though, which is much harder to avoid. The traffic to East Asia is far greater and more important than that to Southeast.
- isostatic 8y ago
  The last time a plane was shot down over Russian airspace was KE007 in 1983 International flight paths over Russia are a large source of money for the country, Russia isn't going to shoot down any airlines.
  - Yizahi 8y ago
    The fact that russian army shot down MH17 from occupied territory doesn't change much really.
    - isostatic 8y ago
      Correct. That was over Ukraine, and airlines responded by not routing over an active warzone If a plane were shot down over Siberia, planes would reroute away from Siberia, meaning Russia loses overfly money. Unless the scenario is that Russia comes out and says "we'll shoot down non-Russian airlines", in which case Russian airlines are no longer allowed to fly to other countries, and Russia is cut off from the rest of the world, and we go back to routing via Iran or Alaska (perhaps non-stop). It's an extra 1300 miles from London to Tokyo via those routes, 1200 miles to Beijing, 1000 to Shanghai, and only 600 miles to Hong Kong / Chengdu It'd be annoying, but not even as bad as when it was the USSR. Russia meanwhile would collapse economically.