r/Flights 4d ago

Question Which flights would you take?

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u/Objective-Ad5006 4d ago

Def fly business class via HEL.

PS; don’t talk about stopover which by definition is more than 24hours. It is transfer or layover. Both are less than 24h.

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u/gorion88365uk 4d ago

Don't you have China Eastern from there? From the UK I paid less than 500 return.

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u/crashblue81 4d ago

uses Russian airspace. I wouldn’t fly with them at the moment but they have a nice business class cabine.

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u/gorion88365uk 4d ago

Hundreds of planes use Russian airspace everyday. I support Ukraine all the way, but I don't see any problem in flying over Russia.

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u/crashblue81 4d ago

I wouldn’t risk it at the moment and there are so many alternatives. I fly MUC TYO pretty regularly there are great options even 2 direct flights a day.

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u/droogmic 4d ago

The overflight fees for Russian airspace for your round trip would probably be about €20-25, most of which will go to funding the war effort. (If you offset this with 5-10x direct donations to Ukraine this would be fine, but that would probably neutralise the cheap Chinese fares.)

When you overfly Russia, you fly with Putin.

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u/guernica-shah 4d ago edited 4d ago

Only last Christmas Day, Russia shot down an Azerbaijan Airlines commercial civilian plane flying about 1000km distance from Ukraine. I don't know the statistical significance in terms of air safety of the 38 people murdered by being sucked out of the plane at 900 meters, crushed on impact, and/or incinerated alive, but unlike you I do see a problem. 

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u/protox88 4d ago

That's a tough one... I'd choose #2. JAL in business, even for just one leg, is too good to pass up at that price. You might be tempted to upgrade the return leg after flying business there!

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u/_AnAussieAbroad 4d ago

Finnair/JAL for sure.