EU retaliation against the UK escalates

[BlasterBates]

Wrong. The majority of north western Europe's flight to North America go over the UK out over NW Scotland via a rigid set of air corridors. These take advantage of great circle navigation and for eastbound flights the Jet stream. If the north most corridor has to skirt the channel the south most will be down at the Pyrenees. This is a major, time consuming, and costly diversion. (Gibbon in I used to work at NATs mode.)

hmm

https://www.flightradar24.com/TSC223/e52fe80

You will be hard pressed to find any transatlantic flight that flies over Northwest Scotland, almost all of them fly over Wales and then Ireland. I would have though it wouldn't be a major detour to head over France and then towards Ireland.

[Gibbon]

hmm

https://www.flightradar24.com/TSC223/e52fe80

You will be hard pressed to find any transatlantic flight that flies over Northwest Scotland, almost all of them fly over Wales and then Ireland. I would have though it wouldn't be a major detour to head over France and then towards Ireland.

Ok, not over NW Scotland directly but I was referring to a general direction of travel. What you can't see on that 2D map is the effect of the earth sphere, that's why they seem to go up and down following a great circle. To fly from Amsterdam all the way to Brittany and then start going north is a long way compared to flying straight over blighty.

[darmstadt]

It'll be like apartheid times when SAA weren't allowed to fly over Africa but had to go the coastal route which is why we always flew BOAC So British carriers will have fly all around Europe to get to Africa/Asia/etc and European carriers just over France onto Ireland to get to the USA...

[stek]

hmm

https://www.flightradar24.com/TSC223/e52fe80

You will be hard pressed to find any transatlantic flight that flies over Northwest Scotland, almost all of them fly over Wales and then Ireland. I would have though it wouldn't be a major detour to head over France and then towards Ireland.

Famously one flew over Lockerbie...

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