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Old Jul 18, 2014 | 3:45 am
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Originally Posted by TRAVELSIG
They all fly over Irag and Afghanistan not to mention anyone flying to Central or Southern Africa tends to pass more than a few hotspots so giving thumbs up in this case to or BA or AF for avoiding a war zone seems a touch dubious.
I agree with this, who knew the russian are going to give heavy hardware to the happy trigger finger guys.


Originally Posted by TRAVELSIG
Back to the OP question it does seem indeed that at least for the moment all of the commercial airlines are avoiding flying over the contested areas of the Ukraine.
Well they have no choice in this, Eurocontrol and the ukranian authorities have closed that airspace.
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