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Old Jun 8, 2006 | 12:39 am
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apirchik
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A routing like SFO-JNU-SVO-TLV is about 7700 miles acording to the Great Circle Mapper while a "direct" rote is about 7400 miles. Also, the routing over the north pole takes a much longer route over water than the other one which makes it more complex.
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