Originally Posted by
tapolo
When CX flies to YYZ and JFK, they fly over the North Pole, I have heard over the past that crews only do any of these flights twice a year because the radiation accumulated is so high.
The math doesn't add up for me. Currently average 26 roundtrip flights/week (more coming in 2011) on those routes, over 1,300 annually. Each crew flies two roundtrips, that would require 650+ crews? I don't think so.