Russia has turned down requests from Lufthansa Cargo and Finnair for additional overflights, the airlines said on Friday, though the reason for the refusal was not immediately clear.

What is additional in a regular scheduled operation?

Russia is scheduled to phase out charges for overflights, but has threatened to restrict the use of its air corridors that connect Europe with North Asia

It would be quite a stretch to include HKG in the definition of North Asia.

But whatever the reason - bad news for AY