Great idea -- if you can't fly west, then fly east. An excellent Russian solution. But I'm wondering -- why wouldn't it have worked also for going to NYC? Would they have run out of fuel over Nebraska or is there something else?
John (formerly of Moscow) Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:19:43 +0000 From: Anthony Crawford <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Expat List flying out of Russia? To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Raffi, Our friends at Aeroflot have come up with a good solution. They have re-routed the flight path of the direct Moscow to Los Angeles flight to avoid the ash. Lately, it has been flying from Moscow East to Alaska, then down the Pacific Coast to Los Angeles. This adds about 1.5 hours to the regular flight time of 12 hours (which normally flies over the North Atlantic, Greenland and Canada), but as a result, it has kept people moving between the US and Russia. Good job Aeroflot! (if I could just convince them to add a regular flight to Anchorage, I'd be super happy). Regards, Tony the Alaskan (but for the last 10+ years in Russia) _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
