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Old Aug 20, 2000 | 3:09 am
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Flights over the North / South pole?

Does anybody know if there are currently any commercial passenger airlines flying routes over the North or the South pole?

Just went through some old papers and came across a certificate from Finnair for having been on the North pole, at an altitude of 33,000 feet. It was back in 1987 when they didn't yet have access to fly over Russian (or the then soviet) airspace through the trans-Siberian route so they had to go around via the polar route and through the (Berintz?) straits between Russia and Alaska for the HEL-NRT flights. It was a DC-10 with extra fuel tanks fitted to make the up to 14 hour flight.

Just curious, are there any airlines flying the polar routes today?
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