Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021
by Yizahi on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:56AM
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The fact that russian army shot down MH17 from occupied territory doesn't change much really.
Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021
by isostatic on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:26AM
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Correct. That was over Ukraine, and airlines responded by not routing over an active warzone
If a plane were shot down over Siberia, planes would reroute away from Siberia, meaning Russia loses overfly money.
Unless the scenario is that Russia comes out and says "we'll shoot down non-Russian airlines", in which case Russian airlines are no longer allowed to fly to other countries, and Russia is cut off from the rest of the world, and we go back to routing via Iran or Alaska (perhaps non-stop). It's an extra 1300 miles from London to Tokyo via those routes, 1200 miles to Beijing, 1000 to Shanghai, and only 600 miles to Hong Kong / Chengdu
It'd be annoying, but not even as bad as when it was the USSR.
Russia meanwhile would collapse economically.
International flight paths over Russia are a large source of money for the country, Russia isn't going to shoot down any airlines.