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Old Jul 29, 2006 | 5:14 am
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Originally Posted by greenery
It would seem like those countries would be in the way of many popular destinations and flying around those countries would be time consuming and expensive. Though Americans are not so popular in those places.

Do any International Flights go over Iraq, Iran, North Korea, or Afghanistan on the way to their final destination?
i flew FRA-BKK a few weeks ago on LH and the plane crossed afghanistan. the captain even announced that due to "heavy traffic over afghanistan" we had to slow down for a while.

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