Questions tagged [routing]

Use for the "2D" navigational routes; for the trajectory use [flight-path]

See also: Usage of tag 'flight-path'

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Why did my IAH-SYD flight avoid Mexican airspace?

I'm on UA101 tonight, the very long IAH-SYD nonstop operated by United. If we look at Flightaware's routing for the flight (verified by the seatback moving map display) it's clear that we departed IAH, flew over El Paso and into southern…
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What might this P-68 be doing?

Right now (28 May 2020, 0910 UTC) this Partenavia P-68 is repeatedly flying, alternately, northbound and southbound over Rome, Italy, in regular straight paths about 45 km long, some 400 meters apart. Flightradar24 gives for it just the model (no…
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Why did our flight avoid the Black Sea?

Just flew from Schipol Airport in the Netherlands to Changi in Singapore. The inflight tracker looked like this: Clearly there is a direct route over Odesa to Tehran. So why would the flight path go "out of our way" and around the Black…
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