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Old Nov 4, 2018 | 6:43 pm
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Originally Posted by NickB
Difficult to say without more details. If it is a mistake by AF in submitting the flight plans or some other mishap attributable to AF or a misfunctioning of AF systems, then I would have thought that there was no ext.circs. OTOH, if everything was submitted correctly and Russia either mistakenly or arbitrarily refused entry, I would have thought that it would be highly likely to be an ext. circ.
Internal AF sources say that the airline very recently decided to avoid Iran airspace because of US sanctions. Among affected flights is AF258 and the natural updated routing is going northerly, i.e. through Russia.
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