I came across this news story on BBC:
Looking at GCMAP, PER-LHR is 9,009 miles while tracking DRW-LHR passing over Turkey is 8,958 miles. Not sure if other factors like wind are very different on both routing, but as absolute distance it's shorter.QF2, QF9 and QF10 are flying over Russia as well. It’s both directions of the flights between DRW and LHR.
If they have to take a longer route they will need to carry more fuel and offset this by saving weight in other areas e.g. passengers and/or cargo.
So how would BA fly to Japan now ?BA was banned as a response to the UK banning the Russian airlines. We haven't done that yet, as far as I know, not that it would have much effect on them.
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One stop via JNBSo how would BA fly to Japan now ?
So how would BA fly to Japan now ?
And what route would JL take then, or are they able to overfly Russia?...They don't fly to Japan right now anyway, only a codeshare on JL.
And what route would JL take then, or are they able to overfly Russia?...
When I said it wouldn’t have any effect, I meant any restrictions our government might impose. It makes a huge difference to anything to Korea or Japan. Perhaps Alaska will become the new Singapore/Dubai.So how would BA fly to Japan now ?
Crypto?!Paying overflight fees may become complicated though if Russian banks are eventually banned from using SWIFT. But I'm sure there's a way, Iran seems to get paid overflight fees even with all the sanctions, but maybe not in USD.
SPFS. A few foreign banks are connected to it, those will get busy very soon.Crypto?!
I think the airline that would be most "screwed" if Russian overflights were banned would be Finnair.