The crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines flight prompted several airlines to suspend flights to Russia.
  • An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed after sustaining damage over Russia, killing 38.
  • The plane was likely hit by Russian air defense before the crash, BI reported Thursday.
  • Several airlines, including Azerbaijan Airlines, El Al, Flydubai, and Qazaq Air, are canceling flights to Russia, citing passenger safety and risks.
  • spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I flew Turkish from Istanbul to Muscat (was supposed to be from Frankfurt but missed our connection) (edit: how did I forget to mention that we flew over much of IRAN?!?). I was pretty chill about it, even fascinated to be flying over this country full of history and conflict of my own, but chose not to tell my wife until we landed.

    That was also in 2019. While I wouldn’t worry much about flying that route again, the world was a bit of a different place then.