Originally Posted by
InThrustMeTrust
How does United operate UA164 daily to Dubai?
American has AA 292 to New Dehli, close enough to Mumbai.
I don’t think it has anything to do with politics and we just require the delivery of 1000s to make the numbers make sense.
I guess you can take a look at their routes on Flight Aware and see which way they're going. I know going over Saudi Arabia instead of Russia added about an hour to our DXB-ATL flight after the Malaysian flight was shot down and that was before the war in Israel, which we over flew often back then but is off limits now.
I just did look at those two routes on Flight Radar 24 and they're taking the long way, no doubt. The 350s we have now should be able to fly those same routes as neither one is as long as JNB and both DXB and BOM are at sea level, not 5,500' like JNB.
Maybe UAL and AA are paying a boatload of money to overfly some of those territories and Eddie Bear doesn't want to?