Originally Posted by
pulse1
This morning I noticed at least 11 A320 sized aircraft on the route from Moscow to Sochi, obviously extended to avoid Ukraine. I cannot believe that that is a normal level of traffic between those cities.
Lots of airports in southern Russia are closed so traffic is being rerouted to Sochi. Rostov, Krasnodar and Voronezh among the closed airports so they used to get a lot of flights.