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Old Apr 4, 2024 | 5:13 am
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Originally Posted by percysmith
Interesting - I thought for US/Japan, they’ll go thru Berings Strait rather than bother to fly thru Russian airspace (no matter whether allowed to/worth paying for it).
My past flights JFK to NRT were usually westbound over the Bering Street, so anecdotally agrees with you.

Incidentally one of the most amazing and rarest sights I have seen is flying along the Kamchatka Peninsular and just seeing volcano after volcano after volcano. Awesome.
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