Timeline for Why is the flight time of London-Beijing and Tel Aviv-Beijing the same?
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| May 10, 2019 at 5:33 | comment | added | krubo | @NickT I'm thinking they're staying as far as possible from Donetsk while also avoiding Abkhazia and the Russia-Georgia border in general. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 12:56 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | @NickT: Just eyeballing the flight track, it looks as if the parts over Turkey, China and Mongolia line up into an approximate great circle route (that would cross Georgia if flown directly), while the middle part that goes over Russia and Kazakhstan is shifted north. Presumably, for some reason, when they decided to detour around Georgia they only changed the middle part of the route. Others can probably take a better guess at the exact reasons, though. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:42 | comment | added | Relaxed | @Tonny That's true but I think it's been like that for a longer time. Handover between Lebanese and (I think) Syrian ATC and Israeli ATC has been impossible for years if not decades. Royal Jordanian, which has no problem with crossing Israel when flying from Europe to Amman already had to circumvent it before the war and now go all the way to Egypt when flying out of Beirut. Middle East Airlines still flies over Syria as we speak (or at least they did a couple of weeks ago). Nick's question was about the little detour further up on the map, though. | |
| S Apr 12, 2017 at 7:18 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 0:08 | comment | added | HorusKol | @Tonny - that explains bypassing Syria, but not Georgia... | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 21:14 | comment | added | Shane | @Calchas Even more obligatory: youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:11 | comment | added | Tonny | @MartinArgerami Fees not so much in this case. Syrian airspace is pretty much closed to any civilian traffic due to the conflict and no Israeli plane is getting anywhere near Iran or IS held territory. So detouring north is pretty logical. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:02 | comment | added | Martin Argerami | Sometimes it has to do with agreements. Certain airlines avoid certain airspaces (possibly to avoid paying fees?). | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 16:40 | comment | added | Nick T | Wonder why they fly kinda towards Georgia, but then detour around it at the Black Sea, are they avoiding just parts of Turkey? | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 15:29 | vote | accept | John Doe | ||
| Apr 11, 2017 at 11:34 | comment | added | Calchas | "But that map horribly distorts distances at different latitudes.": obligatory | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 11:23 | history | answered | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |