What countries can airlines NOT fly over nowadays?
Jan 7, 2010, 9:59 am
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What countries can airlines NOT fly over nowadays?
In the past, USA based airlines could obviously not fly over countries like the Soviet Union, but much has changed since then and now I suspect almost all airlines can fly over Russia. So, what countries are left that do not allow USA based carriers, or any other foreign based airline to violate their airspace? I am pretty sure North Korea is one, but who are the others?
Do we fly over Cuba to get to Jamaica and the Caymans, or do we go all the way around??
Do we fly over Cuba to get to Jamaica and the Caymans, or do we go all the way around??
Jan 7, 2010, 12:38 pm
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I think only Air Koryo (the NK airline) and some Chinese carriers are allowed in NK airspace. Maybe Aeroflot.
KE, OZ, JAL, ANA, and all US carriers give NK a wide berth, which adds time to some flights to ICN. Korean Reunification would likely shave 45-60 minutes off my ORD-ICN flight.
KE, OZ, JAL, ANA, and all US carriers give NK a wide berth, which adds time to some flights to ICN. Korean Reunification would likely shave 45-60 minutes off my ORD-ICN flight.
Jan 7, 2010, 1:03 pm
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According to the Korea Times, NK airspace is commonly used:
"Under an inter-Korean agreement signed in 1997, South Korean passenger airplanes have been allowed to fly over North Korea's airspace since April 1998.
According to the ministry spokesman, 5,260 flights passed through the North's territorial airspace and the North was paid up to $6 billion in fees last year."
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...tegoryCode=116
I don't believe the North can afford to be so picky!
"Under an inter-Korean agreement signed in 1997, South Korean passenger airplanes have been allowed to fly over North Korea's airspace since April 1998.
According to the ministry spokesman, 5,260 flights passed through the North's territorial airspace and the North was paid up to $6 billion in fees last year."
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...tegoryCode=116
I don't believe the North can afford to be so picky!
Jan 7, 2010, 1:29 pm
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Jan 7, 2010, 1:56 pm
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In the past, USA based airlines could obviously not fly over countries like the Soviet Union, but much has changed since then and now I suspect almost all airlines can fly over Russia. So, what countries are left that do not allow USA based carriers, or any other foreign based airline to violate their airspace? I am pretty sure North Korea is one, but who are the others?
Do we fly over Cuba to get to Jamaica and the Caymans, or do we go all the way around??
Do we fly over Cuba to get to Jamaica and the Caymans, or do we go all the way around??
Jan 7, 2010, 1:57 pm
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According to the Korea Times, NK airspace is commonly used:
"Under an inter-Korean agreement signed in 1997, South Korean passenger airplanes have been allowed to fly over North Korea's airspace since April 1998.
According to the ministry spokesman, 5,260 flights passed through the North's territorial airspace and the North was paid up to $6 billion in fees last year."
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...tegoryCode=116
I don't believe the North can afford to be so picky!
"Under an inter-Korean agreement signed in 1997, South Korean passenger airplanes have been allowed to fly over North Korea's airspace since April 1998.
According to the ministry spokesman, 5,260 flights passed through the North's territorial airspace and the North was paid up to $6 billion in fees last year."
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...tegoryCode=116
I don't believe the North can afford to be so picky!
Jan 7, 2010, 2:46 pm
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Jan 7, 2010, 4:05 pm
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I am pretty sure US airlines are prohibited from Sudan, but since nobody flies routes near there it is not much of an issue. I flew FlyDubai to Khartoum and the only others on the ground were AirArabia, Sudan Airways, and several UN aircraft.
Jan 7, 2010, 4:37 pm
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Jan 7, 2010, 4:55 pm
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AFAIK El Al is not allowed to fly over Saudi Arabia (and some other Arab countries) and has to go around when it does its TLV-BOM route. For comparison, MS does CAI-BOM with a scheduled time of 5h30 whereas TLV-BOM is scheduled for 7h45. CAI-BOM is just over 200 miles longer.
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Jan 7, 2010, 5:44 pm
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From how to get to | Sudan - bmi, Egyptair, Lufthansa, Turkish, Royal Jordanian, Kenya, KLM, Emirates, and others.
Jan 7, 2010, 7:37 pm
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It's funny this topic comes up because I just read Andrew Ross Sorkin's "Too Big to Fail" and there is an early passage where Hank Paulson calls Dick Fuld in the middle of a business trip to India and tells him things are about to hit the fan in the US.
Fuld pledges to hop in his Gulfstream ASAP and asks if Paulson can get him clearance to overfly Russia, making a quicker polar route possible.
Paulson is then said to tell Fuld even he, as Treasury Secretary, can't get that kind of special treatment. Fuld ends up doing the milk run back to the US via IST and OSL.
Fuld pledges to hop in his Gulfstream ASAP and asks if Paulson can get him clearance to overfly Russia, making a quicker polar route possible.
Paulson is then said to tell Fuld even he, as Treasury Secretary, can't get that kind of special treatment. Fuld ends up doing the milk run back to the US via IST and OSL.
Jan 7, 2010, 10:30 pm
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According to the Korea Times, NK airspace is commonly used:
"Under an inter-Korean agreement signed in 1997, South Korean passenger airplanes have been allowed to fly over North Korea's airspace since April 1998.
According to the ministry spokesman, 5,260 flights passed through the North's territorial airspace and the North was paid up to $6 billion in fees last year."
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...tegoryCode=116
I don't believe the North can afford to be so picky!
"Under an inter-Korean agreement signed in 1997, South Korean passenger airplanes have been allowed to fly over North Korea's airspace since April 1998.
According to the ministry spokesman, 5,260 flights passed through the North's territorial airspace and the North was paid up to $6 billion in fees last year."
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...tegoryCode=116
I don't believe the North can afford to be so picky!
