Originally Posted by
overthewing
What happens if there's an emergency over Russia and a 787 from a NATO-member country has to land in, say, Novosibirsk? Would you trust Putin with a couple of hundred stranded hostages?
Quite so - I certainly wouldn't be happy with a such a long routing with non-Russian diversion points. This of course in addition to any moral considerations of adding overflight revenue to the Russian economy.
Almost all EU countries have announced overflight bans today with turn back of LH & KL flights planned to cross Russian airspace.