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Old Apr 15, 2018, 7:22 pm
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Originally Posted by PsiFighter37
Not always. I flew TPE-JFK on BR 2 months ago, and we didn't fly over Russian airspace at all despite it being the scientifically shortest route.....
Upper atmosphere winds, jet stream is usually the cause not to fly great circle routing.
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