AI flies through Russian airspace, the last country you should be anywhere close if you are a
US citizen.
If you think you are just going to be transiting at 35,000':
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/...o-18138373.php
When an Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco had to make an emergency landing in Russia after experiencing engine problems, one East Bay man found himself stranded for hours, sleeping alongside hundreds of other passengers on the floor of a local school turned into a makeshift shelter.
“Everything is calm here,” Prajwal Chaulagain of Hayward wrote in a series of text messages to The Chronicle, describing conditions after the flight with at least 276 passengers and 16 crew members was diverted to the Sokol Airport in Magadan Oblast, a mountainous city in the far east region of Russia.