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What does it take for Delta to get clearances to fly a route like this one? Can they just fly at a different altitude to avoid all the routes they cross? Also,

• dghlsakjg 3y ago
  To fly up high (like this flight) you are required to file a flight plan, but that's about it, the FAA isn't particularly concerned with why, they just need you to tell them where and when. It's pretty easy to deconflict. There is A LOT of sky. The path of totality will be 115 miles, which means that at any given moment during the eclipse there is roughly 14k square miles that can see it. Plus planes have 20k+ feet of controlled airspace to play with. For the smaller planes lower down, they don't even need to file if they don't want. They can go VFR and just see and avoid. The amount of aircraft flying around NYC airspace is far higher density on any given afternoon than something like this.