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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 gre
by 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 agoThe 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 agoThe fact that russian army shot down MH17 from occupied territory doesn't change much really.
- isostatic 8y agoCorrect. 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.