[QUOTE=Tourist;9307429]rmac
Just let me get this right.
When planning your business trip routings, you are taking into account not just the usual SAM attacks, meteor strike etc but also taking into account the chance of nuclear war in the vicinity affecting your aircraft adversely.
Ahem....correct me if I'm wrong, but a 777 did actually get a SAM up its tailpipe didn't it ? Which was directly connected to routing over an active war zone wasn't it ?
I might put a different risk analysis in to a car journey to Sainsburys compared to say a trip from Kuwait City to Basra by road ...
And it is my confirmed belief that we are not so far away from seeing the conflict in Syria escalate significantly along with the possibility of tac-nuke use .....if EMP had a negative effect on air traffic from 100's of miles away, I would want to avoid being in the areas of threat, much as I wouldn't be too chuffed at being flown over Eastern Ukraine around the time of the SAM threat....