Originally Posted by Timbo

Unless we're allowed to fly through some of those No Fly zones there's going to have to be a lot of dog legs and extra miles flown to get there. Back when we did fly the 777 to BOM and DXB, and then we stopped, we were told it was because Air India drove down the yields on the Mumbai flights and because we lost the Halliburton contract (to United) on the Dubai flight.

Halliburton was booking 50 seats a night from Houston to Dubai, on Delta they had to go through ATL of course, but UAL started a nonstop from IAH-DXB and they got the Halliburton contract, and we stopped flying DXB.

Now with the wars in Israel and the Ukrain there's so much No Fly airspace around there I don't know if you can get there. Of course both Emirates and Air India are not involved with the Russian Airspace embargo like we are, so they can get in/out no problem.