Originally Posted by
Repooc17
Not to get too OT, but since you had brought it up, if Chinese carriers are going to boost flight frequency to/from east coast US, they will continue to use the Russian airspace, as they do currently.
Not necessarily, for example Air China's PEK-JFK flight avoids Russian airspace:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...215Z/ZBAA/KJFK
The most recent (10 August) China Southern CAN-JFK flight avoiding Russian airspace as well (
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...015Z/ZGGG/KJFK) but the prior one (3 August) did not