![]() How long? As per Flight Radar, long enough to come close, combined, to the current world’s longest flight, between Singapore and New York, which was in the air for over 15,300 km (over 9,500 miles) and more than 17 hours. No permission was granted by the other European regions the planes would have had to fly over, and that caused the staged flight to take a very long detour. As usual, Russia sent planes to fetch its people, and it received permission from both nations to enter their airspace. Last week, for instance, both Spain and Greece did that, and for these guys to travel by land from either back to their homeland was out of the question. And that poses serious challenges when it comes to retrieving diplomats that keep getting expelled. ![]() As of March 1, no Russian plane is allowed to fly in the airspace of no less than 36 countries, including 27 EU members. One of the first measures Europe and the world took against Russia, in response to its aggression against Ukraine, was to close the skies.
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