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Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by vba616 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:08PM (#29952596)
>I’d be worried about anyone on an airplane near there, but I guess it’s not a highly trafficked route.

I was curious whether Fua'amotu International Airport is a stop on flights going elsewhere but I wasn't able to come up with a good search. It sounds like it could be:

"The air field was constructed by Seabees of the 1st Construction Battalion with assistance and labor of the U. S. Army 147th Infantry Regiment. It was intended as a World War II heavy bomber field, and had three coral-surfaced runways. In the late 1970s, it was expanded to permit jet aircraft to use the runways. Fuaʻamotu is now suitable for up to Boeing 767 size aircraft, but remains closed to larger jets (e.g. Boeing 747s)."

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Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by bobthepanda on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:51AM (#29954387)
Today's aircraft can easily handle transpacific flights, and Tonga is in the Southern Hemisphere close to the equator so even Southern Hemisphere flights would likely avoid it.

It's basically just Australia and New Zealand to Hawaii and North America, and Pacific Islands east of Tonga. As well as any inter-Oceanic flights that happen to pass it.

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