Originally Posted by
3Greens
not really. Hardly any Far East destinations worth operating to GIA russia at the moment anyway. HKG&China are written off so just leaves Japan really. Don’t forget that Russian Airspace wasn’t available until the 90s anyway.
I was more thinking Europe-China, than Tokyo or Seoul. The Chinese airlines are going to be at a serious advantage when this mess is over, maybe the Gulf ones too, I did not follow their stance on Russia. As to before 1990, yes I remember very well the hours it took and the price of the tickets too. There were hardly any flights to China at that time, a third world economy back then. Things are a bit different now. The future will definitively be in the Asia-Pacific.