The Most Valuable Airspace in the World

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[@jonfr]

This flight path is suddenly becoming relevant again in the world.

[@tushargupta1968]

I came to this video again looking for this comment, it suddenly popped in my head, someone must have commented something like this under the video. 😂

[@elry6030]

well, modern plane has longer range now.

[@tushargupta1968]

@@elry6030 The problem in the past wasn't range, as in the hindsight, the company has to shell out extra money for fuel because they can't connect the places on close to a straight line. Not to mention that long haul flights not that beneficial to the company, (because after a certain fuel threshold, the returns are negative.)

[@skidadle5473]

@@tushargupta1968 Russia isn't as big now, European companies can still fly across whole central Asia, so I don't think fly time will be much longer then previous

[@Hi11is]

I suspect that one of the conditions for Russia to reconnect its economy to the West after its collapse will be a large reduction in the overflight fees, and a relaxation of who can overfly Siberia.

[@deanchur]

One of the perks of being in Australia. Now if you'll excuse me I have to drive up the road to get some milk, will be back in 6 hours.

[@samovarmaker9673]

that moment when I am Russian and in Australia

[@YummYakitori]

Dean Churchman Russia is nearly three times the size of Australia. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to drive up the road to get some milk, will be back in 18 hours.

[@karlhanks1967]

YummYakitori no where near 3 times the size so stop making up bullshit you clown

[@YummYakitori]

Karl Hanks Australia’s land area is 7 million km^2 whereas Russia’s is 17 million km^2, that’s about 2.5x

[@shaungordon9737]

I'd say 2.5x is pretty close to 3x

[@SuperVt100]

The power of real estate: location, location, location.

[@anonymousdonor8084]

SuperVt100 I hate realtors the way most people hate lawyers! Lol.

[@ant4377]

Anonymous Donor p-people don’t hate lawyers, they hate their landlords

[@ant4377]

Alpha Beta silence consumer.

[@nancyhobson9710]

Yes, the old story - location.

[@valsites]

@@anonymousdonor8084 it's because you're pretty stupid.

[@user-zs6xw3nr1t]

Well its 2022 and I think Anchorage is back in business baby

[@jihadismail8527]

hahaha no not really , the Asian countries still use the Russian airspace , Russian banned the west airlines only , which gives the asian countries huge advantage over the western airlines . so expect the west to start crying soon ))

[@MR.ALFE95]

My mother is a former Iberia cabin crew and she was destined to live in Anchorage for two years to cover the routes from Madrid to Tokyo via Alaska. Airlines were paying a lot of money for those going to live abroad! Thanks to that, my mum could afford to pay almost cash down for the house we're living in nowadays!

[@stevesmith1687]

Move out and get your own place haha

[@mikeinsall8854]

@@antonv5488 BUT, who the hell wants live in RUSSIA?

[@eugeneng7064]

@@mikeinsall8854 Russia is actually very beautiful and the people are nice. Only thing is their economy is not doing so well due to sanctions.

[@erfgtdsfsdf6993]

...and thanks to Russia you are not living in Anchorage somewhere in Alaska .)

[@vladilenkalatschev4915]

@@mikeinsall8854 have you ever been there? For example in Moscow, Saint Petersburg or Sochi? You cannot judge

[@danielwebb4713]

Alaska; the only US state that didn't want the ussr to fall 😂

[@swamigal]

Well, it has russian ancestry too lol

[@BXJ-mi9mm]

@Rojus Naujalis It is very sad indeed.

[@BXJ-mi9mm]

@Rojus Naujalis I am a proud socialist and communist. I believe we need to transition to socialism and then to a modern form of communism. I also believe this is inevitable and will happen within my lifetime.

[@BXJ-mi9mm]

@Rojus Naujalis No, I don't. We need a secret communist code to communicate with each other haha This is my anonymous account due to the fact that my atheist and political views could have a negative impact on my life if public.

[@BXJ-mi9mm]

@Rojus Naujalis Do you know of any forums or anything?

[@richardweil8813]

Took the flight from Chicago to Beijing. Truly exciting to see the northern Canadian islands, the North Pole, all of Siberia. And while I stayed glued to the window everyone else slept, read and watched movies. Their loss. It was weird to leave at night, see the day over the ice cap, switch hemispheres and land in darkness again.

[@squeaksquawk4255]

That sounds amazing!

[@jugostran]

*BREAKING NEWS* Ryanair camouflages their planes to look like Russian planes to avoid paying

[@chongjunxiang3002]

BREAKING NEWS Ryanair plane being shot down in Ukraine because it looks like Russian planes. Hey, Malaysian Airlines particularly MH17 also looks like Russian planes.

[@genakitskaylo1439]

Since 1963 Aeroflot 29 lines have already been opened, there was also a flight back then to the USA. The sky over the USSR was not so closed

[@thecomputer9722]

*BREAKING NEWS* Ryanair is flying beyond Europe

[@iriska522]

@@chongjunxiang3002 that plane wasn't shot down by Ukraine

[@chongjunxiang3002]

@@iriska522 I didn't say who shoot it?

[@kartikeyatiwari3487]

Your move, flat earthers.

[@E1craZ4life]

The Flat Earth model is centered on the North Pole.

[@hanj31]

where is Kyrie Irving at?

[@who9387]

@Lang Hansen Explain flight routes in the Southern hemisphere

[@HoundGrin]

@@who9387 There's no southern (or other) hemisphere. These are two sides of the flat Earth. Period. So Australia and Britain are actually two dozen kilometers apart and could be connected via a hyperloop at a below minute travel time. Closing bracket.

[@who9387]

@@HoundGrin Is that why I keep getting kangaroos in my garden ?

[@noooddle]

Before the fall of the USSR, I worked for an oil company. We use to sell a heck of a lot of jet fuel in anchorage. It was amazing how it changed.

[@ytubesocialtv]

You sound like a cool guy, tell me more sir (im gen z btw)

[@fortune3911]

Hey sir

[@margs_aviation2153]

Anchorage is a best example of radiator springs 😢

[@cynathan_mcfc7719]

you almost made me spit out my coffee lmao!!!

[@oceanlnr9414]

Anchorage still gets a ton of cargo flights. Every time I go there there are at least 3-5 747s sitting in the cargo area.

[@benjamindover9069]

It’s radiator springs but backwards

[@owenjohanson6256]

TSIA still gets a lot of flights

[@liamdupras6127]

@@oceanlnr9414 yeah but passenger flights we rarely get anything international but ANC is one of the busiest cargo airports

[@simonsimonovic2072]

And what if Russia never sold Alaska to America ...

[@crdeathgaming3607]

Then Alaska would be an independant culturaly russian country. There where independence movements in the colony and the russian Empire sold alaska because of it. Alaska wasn't worth it, back then the Gold and oil reserves where not known of. They wouldn't enrole the army to a rebellious colony which didn't even have ports which don't freeze over in the winter. If they would have tried to keep alaska under their reign, alyeska would have revolted in the winter and the russians could have never reinforced or enrolled the army until alyeska would have been possible to declare itself independant.

[@simonsimonovic2072]

@@crdeathgaming3607 What independence movments ???, in 1867 population of Alaska was maybe 100-200 K

[@crdeathgaming3607]

@@simonsimonovic2072 yes that is true but there where political movements in alaska which pushed for independance, even with the very small population.

[@simonsimonovic2072]

@@crdeathgaming3607 What political mouvements, that was wildirness ... They did not sold Alaska because of political mouvements ...

[@crdeathgaming3607]

@@simonsimonovic2072 they did. The alyeska liberation party went from 30% of votes in the colonial election in 1858 to 78% in the next election in 1862.

[@MPPelli]

A historical sidenote regarding the Finnair route (at 4:00): the reason Finnair flew the long way round in 1983 was not because of the Soviets, but the Japanese. The Finns actually had permission to use Soviet airspace, but the Japanese wouldn't have given permission to land in Tokyo if Finnair flew the direct route. Apparently this was a move to protect Japan's flag carrier airline JAL's own European routes.

[@kosmosyche]

No. It's Russkies I hate and love to hear how bad they are. Don't confuse me with your lies against awesome Japanese. lol

[@ZaHandle]

@@kosmosyche …

[@gilangbayurakasiwi99]

4 years later, Siberian airspace will be exclusively limited to the Mainland Chinese airlines since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but no more for Hong Kong, South Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese carriers whose they still have European destinations, because they just imposed a huge ban on the Russian travel.

[@10babiscar]

china and russia are falling into each others lap, a match made in heaven

[@freeloader247]

Hate to tell u that but Cathay already in

[@ayoubm6697]

Looks like we’re going back to Anchorage

[@jihadismail8527]

nop ,the Asian countries still use the Russian airspace , Russian banned the west airlines only , which gives the asian countries huge advantage over the western airlines . so expect the west to start crying soon ))

[@Mrbriangalvan]

@@jihadismail8527 lol 🤡 they’ve already expanded Anchorage for passenger and cargo flights already… traffic is up 846% and will rise even more in the coming years. Don’t let your anti US anything attitude blind you to making clownish comments. Cheers

[@BringTheRains]

We should have an update of this video since Russia closed its airspace again.

[@darraghtate440]

It's amazing how good the former Soviet Union have gotten at exploiting capitalism.

[@fine1298]

Darragh Tate It was all inside their hearts

[@atlantis009]

the soviet union disliked capitalism in part because of how greedy it seemed, in their minds they were taking the moral high road by avoiding the greed, this all changed when they fell. the soviets and by extension, the Russians have never failed to understand capitalism they just thought that it was a bad idea.

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

Commies always do capitalism better than capitalists.

[@user-co1kn5em5d]

And how the West is becoming socialist.

[@jacobkrone272]

China doing the same today

[@FutureNow]

In Soviet Russia, airspace value you.

[@yattasuccess9212]

Isn't that more beneficial to the person themselves rather than Russia

[@ijlalrizvi9856]

It values *Us comrade

[@sasjadevries]

I Russia people know the grammar of their native language. "airspace value" that's singular 3rd person, so where is the s at the end of the verb???

[@nntflow7058]

Can you believe, Russia is the only thing that prevent China from actually dominating the world?

[@Wolfman85a]

In Soviet Russia, airspace control you

[@maxschardt1046]

lemme sum up the whole vid. SAS ruins everything for Norweigan

[@peteremad1355]

SAS is bribing Russia to keep norweigan at bay

[@All4Kanye69]

Lol

[@Notamusician2k]

Every single star alliance carrier ruins everything

[@foolroblox3231]

Wendover: Russia geography sucks Also Wendover: Russia geopolitics are important

[@iamthinking2252_]

Both can be true

[@moistyreact]

Few things get me happier than seeing a Wendover/Half As Interesting notification. One thing however, is a Sam from Wendover notification.

[@prantikchakraborty8052]

Vault Dude You are that pubg ytuber and gift cards salesman ri8??

[@linus-2627]

wtf are you doing here xD Long time viewer of both your channel and Wendover ;)

[@patrickg757]

Mustard is also amazing

[@martoantoniuk]

I didn´t know Half as interesting existed! Thank you

[@FdPros]

Real Engineering?

[@worldaviation4k]

I have just flown from Hong Kong to Vienna and you really get a feel for how big china and russia is, it's cool. I filmed the whole flight which i'm still processing

[@bandulad7695]

upload it usinga speed through

[@SabbyNGG]

On which day was your flight back to Vienna? We could have been on the same flight.. but we had layover in HK from PH, then to Vienna.

[@jslasher1]

And whilst you're driving to the 'Servo', mate, you'll encounter 'roos, Emus, a brown snake or two and another worthless politician trying to find his way back to Canberra.

[@criskp6861]

Can you upload the Video to youtube?

[@zogzog1063]

OK ... and

[@natotomato4625]

This aged like fine wine 🍷

[@5133937]

Looks like Anchorage is back on the menu, boys.

[@goytabr]

Nearly all countries charge overflight fees, they're just usually not as selective as Russia. And two more things: first, they often block planes from unfriendly countries - no Israeli planes can overfly most Arab countries and vice versa, for example, Qatari planes are banned from several other Arab countries, and no planes from Taiwan can overfly mainland China (there is an exception for direct flights to mainland Chinese airports, which are limited). And there are many other examples. Second, the U.S. controls air traffic in vast areas of oceanic airspace, even in international waters and some other countries' airspace (e.g., Micronesia, which controls a huge area of the Pacific Ocean) - and it charges for overflights not only of its own territory, but for overflying air traffic CONTROLLED areas. So, a flight from Japan to New Zealand, or from the UK to the Bahamas, must pay U.S. overflight fees, even though it doesn't overfly American territory or territorial waters. This is even worse than the Russian fees in many cases.

[@maczetamaczeta189]

Yeah, well - no European (or US) country is denying flight rights to anybody, so your example of Arab countries using same political agendas is actually bad for either of them.

[@maczetamaczeta189]

Railways and pipelines cross the country on the ground, dividing it into pieces. This requires control and maintenance costs, while air space is basically free and belongs to everybody. So spare me your preaching and get the difference yourself.

[@maczetamaczeta189]

"And how do they divide the land " - by occupying space... You're some kind of stupid, aren't you? Air space is in control only to a certain degree, by some ridiculous, abstract law. Unless you want ISS to pay Russia too. Most of the waters are international and belongs to no one. Learn some basic facts before talking to adults. Russia is always welcome to trade within the European laws. The thing is, these laws are too strict for their taste - too little people to bribe and blackmail - therefore using the oldest weapon in their arsenal: obstacle and obstructions. I couldn't care less if this Gas station-country is greed enough, to calculate fees or not - we can afford it. It just look silly and showcase, Russia is not worthy of any partnership.

[@maczetamaczeta189]

I'm so fed up of Russia's besieged fortress syndrome. Everytime Russia want to do something nasty, uses same old, worn out excuses. Invasion of Poland among Nazis in 1939? "We have to protect our people". Georgia, Ukraine... "we have to protect our people". One of the few countries in the world regulating air space with political agenda? That's naturally in reaction to world "being bully" to Russia. No one is falling for this anymore. "And who worths it? The British? The Americans? The.... Germans? LOL!" Apparently, to those interested: yes. It got you think. "Why doesn't EU let Russia..." Because of long history of Russia breaking trade agreements and using it to empowered itself in given regions, rather that trading. "We don't like Ukraine anymore, let's stop pumping them gas". "Baltic states are annoying, let's pretend their meat doesn't meet are sophisticated rules" etc. etc.

[@maczetamaczeta189]

I haven't heard so much nonsense in years. You actually turned out to be psycho, covered behind deep complexes of homo sovieticus. The entire GDP of Russia is lower, than that of New York City. So much about the significance of your "farts". That's the sole reason, the only thing Russia can do to, be noticed is to bully other countries and threat with nuclear arms. We just don't give a shiet anymore. Live in your barren wasteland and dream of once glorious empire of the east and don't bother to prolongue this conversation as I'm not going to bother anymore. Disgusting...

[@JustinY.]

But how many toyota corollas is that airspace worth? Wait wrong channel

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Justin Y. Do you comment on every video as a job?

[@isaaclao2380]

Justin Y. Ask RLL lol

[@bobafett4351]

Justin Y. GENERAL JUSTINOBI YOU’RE AN OLD ONE!

[@michigan2974]

Justin Y. What channel is that

[@monky3997]

STOP WATCHING THE SAME VIDEOS AS ME PLEASE

[@FlyLeah]

Norwegian: Can i ha- SAS: No

[@EkEMaN91]

Well the WOW air bit is outdated now.

[@amprosk]

Wow

[@area51r]

you're outdated now

[@Warp__]

It's going back

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

@@Warp__ yes it is.

[@quincyskis]

Aged like milk

[@simonpeter5032]

"Useless frozen tundra" they said. Hah!

[@susannemoseidbryhni9898]

More like useless melting tundra

[@owenjohanson6256]

Living in Alaska for 17 year I can confirm that it is still largely useless

[@MrK0mix]

Useless burning tundra, this today

[@HumoristUnion]

@@MrK0mix it's economically impractical to extinguish the forest

[@yahooboi261]

I was waiting for a new aviation-related video. I'm satisfied!

[@kolskywalker5071]

How are you verified?...

[@iaexo]

KolSkywalker ikr

[@fadel8792]

He's foreign minister of Wakanda

[@yahooboi261]

Hahahaha, I like this one!

[@flavoursofsound]

Anchorage right now: **rubbing hands**

[@jihadismail8527]

nop ,the Asian countries still use the Russian airspace , Russian banned the west airlines only , which gives the asian countries huge advantage over the western airlines . so expect the west to start crying soon ))

[@karlshorstzwei]

@@jihadismail8527 Seven months later, am a Westerner, still not crying.

[@Redpantslol]

Hey, guess what just became relevant again 3 years after this video was made.

[@robinsinhaxii-a3848]

I am sure he has a folder on his desktop which contains 1 yottabyte of air plane footage xD

[@romanbaranovichi5375]

Robin Sinha tf is a yottabyte

[@swaree]

Roman Baranovichi 1,000,000,000,000 Terabyte

[@MustraOrdo]

Robin Sinha we all have are fetishes.... what a crazy world õ_õ

[@LancesArmorStriking]

I bet Wendover watches airplane porn

[@MustraOrdo]

LancesArmorStriking you mean plane spotting videos?

[@RoulinBrooks]

I've had stopovers at the Anchorage airport twice. Once we all stayed on the plane for refueling. The other time we were able to get off. I remember seeing the cleaning crew waiting to get on the plane. It was about 2 in the morning and they all looked miserable. Who can blame them? You have to clean a dirty plane, it's the middle of the night and you're in Alaska.

[@RoulinBrooks]

Yeah, hilarious.

[@punnequraq]

Is being in Alaska a bad thing?

[@hanj31]

@@punnequraq well it's cold almost every day.

[@andrewrg6417]

@@hanj31 Yeah not really. We still have a summer, it gets to the 80s and 90s. Also Anchorage is relatively a pretty warm Alaskan "city" when compared to places like Fairbanks. It also definitely gets more than a flight every couple days. It gets multiple flights a day usually to other airports in Alaska, Canada, and a good number of the states bordering Canada.

[@hanj31]

@@andrewrg6417 it must be like that for the southern coastal parts of Alaska then.

[@twinny643]

i think that airport in alaska in gonna be important again in the near future watching this in 2022 :P

[@jarynn8156]

Some flights will return, but aviation has changed since then. Planes can fly longer distances now, maintaining the lack of need for a stop at Anchorage.

[@thefirminator]

Russia just closed it's airspace to major eu countries and that reminded me of this video. Came here again to give a like.

[@asrco6485]

Not just EU..36 countries in total.

[@ayushkumarnayak463]

Russia 🇷🇺 attacks🔪 Ukraine 🇺🇦 (🇷🇺 🔪 🇺🇦).

[@mszkey2168]

”WOW Air' is the most hilarious name for an airliner. They should totally hire Owen Wilson as representative

[@GusMacGus313]

Mszkey they’ve gone bust 🤣

[@atlasflame5815]

RIP

[@CityBeautiful]

You should do more airplane videos! I bet it would really catch on with your audience. ;D

[@MM-xm5vx]

City Beautiful omg it’s you

[@nathan2926]

Your videos are really good and I enjoy watching them. Your video on gentrification helped me on one of my AP tests :D

[@Coolsomeone234]

Oh hi there

[@msergio0293]

You should do more vídeos toó!! :D win-win situation

[@Samlee-kz5dk]

City Beautiful have you ever thought of doing a video together

[@eliorahg]

"The most valuable airspace in the world" In Billy Mays's voice: *Not anymore.*

[@one_step_sideways]

Now you'll have to pay up

[@davidrosner6267]

This video also unintentionally explains why Russia is such an important part of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Road and rail infrastructure across Siberia and European Russia is crucial to promoting land trade between Europe and East Asia.

[@jyashin]

Bit of a late reply. While Russia is an important partner for China's BRI, most of the railways and other connectivity infrastructure don't take place in Russia itself, but in the former Soviet Republics. China doesn't trust Russia, as Russian authorities are notorious for attacking and closing Chinese businesses. That's why the routes mostly go through Kazakhstan. China even built railways in Turkey and Syria just to avoid Russia as much as possible. However, Russia's influence over the former Soviet republics is immense, and Putin's approval is required to actually get those countries on board. Thus, while most of the projects don't take place in Russia, the Kremlin is unfortunately a poison China has to risk.

[@jyashin]

@@user-ph5bz3qn4i Russia had closed Chinese businesses in Moscow before. That said, I'm very skeptical of the whole "China doesn't care about its citizens" narrative our gongzhi (it's a negative term) propagate. When in Russia, follow Russian laws, after all. The US is also a poison pill. At the end of the day we can only count on ourselves. This is true of all countries, including both Russia and China.

[@EladLerner]

Look at the airspace problems of Israel. Mostly Surrounded by hostlile countries, planes going in and out of Israel have to take strange routes. Could make an interesting video!

[@antoniklimaszyk6661]

elad lerner yes, yes, yes, like his comment to be seen!

[@thomasqu3663]

++

[@dodovomitory3496]

israel? more like IsFAKE haha 😂 thank yoqu thank you

[@jayasuriyas2604]

Yeah that would be an interesting video.

[@firetv7835]

👍

[@MustardChannel]

planes. 💖

[@samovarmaker9673]

Am I the first one to notice that this is Mustard?

[@rds7516]

The most pointless comment of the month award goes to..

[@human_bing]

Hi mustard

[@raheen7570]

Less than 200 likes and it’s mustard!!

[@lukemccrory]

Well said

[@andrewfield5656]

Anchorage is ‘bout to have a comeback

[@Doso777]

This video just became very relevant again.

[@sebastianelytron8450]

Still not as valuable as being first in line to the throne, that's the most valuable heir space.

[@ferryansony2161]

Sebastian Elytron Get the fuck out!! Get out!

[@brayden361]

Reeeee

[@HansLemurson]

I was just browsing the Crusader Kings forums, and didn't notice at first that this comment was out of the ordinary.

[@kittenleaf1035]

the irony

[@engrpas]

Sebastian Elytron Touché !!!

[@cup_check_official]

your channel name should be "Airplane Productions" :D

[@leonidverevkin4927]

you stole my comment

[@cup_check_official]

I didn't, bro. Where is your comment? i can't see it?

[@leonidverevkin4927]

Software Man I wrote my comment 18 minutes ago

[@Britishmajestic]

Honestly though his aviation vids are the best

[@jayfawn8478]

Software Man sjw called your username is sexist

[@qingyangzhang6093]

@Wendover Productions We want updates!

[@rosswebster7877]

This is probably my favorite video on this channel. My mom and dad also enjoyed it. Having lived in Anchorage in the late 60s and 70s they remember the days when the city was such an international hub. They also saw the meeting between President Nixon and Japanese Emperor Hirohito there.

[@lucamuller1672]

New Wendover video: Life is good

[@dziadWSZEWIED]

earth is flat;) bcouse of that they fly over north pole. southe pole is a cirkle

[@chair5728]

v8tatra well that’s almost a sentence...

[@Oliver-pi4wd]

Jim 45856585 it a joke

[@pleaseenteranamelol711]

i think lukas needs a hot shower, dont you?

[@rossellwood4088]

Luca Müller y

[@fine1298]

Anchorage really was the Anchorage between the East and West

[@PlanesTrainsEverything]

Thanks for this video. After almost 40 years of working in the travel industry, and dealing with airlines on a daily basis, it's such a fascinating industry, you can't help but learn something new every day. Thanks again.

[@IloveRumania]

The KZbin algorithm sure is good at timing.

[@janvereecken1444]

well this was a very intresting video, but i have to correct you on one thing, there's a pretty new airline, Air Belgium. They officially classes as a low cost carrier and it flies from brussels south to Hong Kong. They recently got their permission to fly over russia, and im pretty sure that there are now 2 airlines in belgium that fly over Russia, Air Belgium and Brussels airlines. Great video :D

[@davidwill5347]

Not only Belgium! Likewise for Japan (ANA, JAL), South Korea (Asiana, Korean), Taiwan (EVA, China Airlines) and China (Hainan, Air China, China East, China Southern) all fly through Russian airspace to Europe.

[@Mkungaa]

Yep, it regulated by mutual agreements with Russia. So Norwegian Air should blame only own government for the creation of SAS's monopoly and making 0 efforts to sign new transit agreement.

[@timbettin6536]

Actually Brussels Airlines doesn’t operate any flights to East Asia, so Air Belgium will be the first Belgian airline. It’s an interesting development 😄

[@janvereecken1444]

Tim 608103 Well thé furthest BA Flies is Mumbai, they light fly around Russia but im not sure

[@TeddyKrimsony]

The Russkies have no problem of many different airlines transit through them as long as they're getting the money.

[@melihyldz1479]

I was studying for the most important exam I will ever have but f*ck it. There is a nofication from Wendover.

[@jkearns_5610]

Melih Yıldız Leaving cert?

[@Alkuf100]

We had leaving cert exams last week so I would asume yes. Or some sort of acreditiation who knows

[@lukapapez]

You do realize you could watch video later, without disturbing your studing.

[@otzi1]

LGS mi oldu şimdi ismi?

[@melihyldz1479]

Ötzi YKS oldu

[@danielmogos1437]

The middle east countries take advantage of the oil resources they have, the British took advantage of their ocean openings and established sea trade routes with any possible country in the world, why wouldnt the Russia do the same with its advantages?

[@satisfiedskullservant]

I don't think he was arguing it's a completely bad thing. He's saying that for a new low cost airline it's a bad thing as they couldn't possible maintain their low prices to compete.

[@LukeVilent]

IDK, Maybe because a more open world is more comfortable, fair and advantageous for everyone instead of a small clique of cleptocrates?

[@wdvd6822]

Gotta watch the Russian Geography Problem video

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

@@LukeVilent But in that case the money is collected by the state, that money then indirectly goes to the citizens. It is in some way a voluntary tax, so I think it is not such a bad idea for Russia. There is another question how well the russian taxes are spent, i have no idea. Either way you always have loosers and winners.

[@LukeVilent]

@@OnkelJajusBahn Oh, really? Who could have thought?! Maybe, you gonna tell me Russia has democracy because there are official "elections"?

[@nicknickbon22]

And now here we go again

[@wongtszshing3795]

Imagine if USA had not bought alaska...

[@lite4998]

It's simply amazing how much Britain and Russia loathe each other on a fundamental level, yet do their best to pretend that they don't. Well, Britain isn't pretending very hard anymore, but still :p

[@greatwolf5372]

Wong Tsz Shing Yeah one of the best deals US ever made. Got such a strategic and economically useful(lots of minerals and other natural resources) land for dirt cheap. Thank you Secretary William Seward for negotiating this deal when many others thought it was folly.

[@TehDMBfan]

Russia posions someone on a UK sidewalk and so we're just meant to accept it..?

[@lite4998]

TheDMBfan You mean the UK poisoned two Russian citizens on its sidewalk and then blamed Russia for it in order to distract from internal problems? :p Oh and don't forget the fact that they also murdered their cat via starvation :(

[@videogamebomer]

Denis Safiev Can't tell if Russian troll or just troll

[@user34274]

KEEP THE PLANE-RELATED VIDEOS COMING YASSSSSSS LUV U

[@gabor1991]

Relevant in 2022.

[@theanonymousaviationlover2677]

With the Russian-Ukrainian war now and the British being banned from flying over Russia, Anchorage is gradually going to become more busy with passengers again if the ongoing conflict continues to worsen relations between Europe and Russia.

[@maxxiong]

That was due to the lack of range though. Most planes these days don't need that stopover even if avoiding Russia. Also ICN is sort of playing the role of ANC right now due to Chinese COVID restrictions. Without COVID restrictions EWR-HKG by united and DFW-HKG by american will probably need a legitimate stopover due to range

[@theanonymousaviationlover2677]

@@maxxiong That is true and I can see some airlines doing that but in Wendovers' video about 20 hour flights and cargo airlines it is cheaper to stopover in Anchorage in the long run.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

@@maxxiong A lot of cargo planes are older and smaller, so they don't have the same range as the newer premiere passenger jetliners. Anchorage will serve as a nexus for cargo flights until Russian airspace is open again.

[@maxxiong]

​@@mdstate829 For cargo it depends on how much payload is being carried actually. I found 5Y785 on FR24, which sometimes flies MIA-ICN-HKG, and the first leg takes nearly 17 hours partially due to having to route around Russia. This has to be at a pretty low load, because boeing's stated range at max load is somewhere around 10-11 hours.

[@emmablack583]

Only Britain is banned?? I thought Russia banned whole Europe? Strange...

[@normansmith4166]

Damn I thought air was free

[@newsgetsold]

Norman Smith The government taxes your breathing now. Even foreign governments.

[@CologneCarter]

Tell that to Exxon Germany who take a fee for the self use thingamagig with which you can check tire pressure and refill if needed. They take money for air.

[@LightMinesMinecraft]

ever heard of lays?

[@Pilot-ATC]

Don't confuse notions "air" and "airspace"

[@SuperSmashDolls]

Yes but traffic control isn't

[@KnightAlmighty]

Living right under the route connecting Bejin and Paris, Seul and Stokholm gives lots - the sky that never absolutely blue, there's always at least one white track across the sky. Greetings from Siberia

[@alfa99121]

Oh shit you have theese people in you country too? They are so annoying.

[@sunshineimperials1600]

This video hasn’t aged well. Anchorage shall rise again.

[@Wraithfighter]

I’d say that it’s aged like the Statue of Liberty: Interestingly, but not at all like planned.

[@epapa737]

Nos it's anchorages time to shine... Again

[@madwax4771]

Anchorage: I have become useless Covid-19: Hold my batsoup

[@igornebov]

Underrated

[@drumset09]

I used to work at ANC. For international passenger flights, it's virtually dead in the North (international) terminal. Cargo flights are another story. ANC was the 3rd busiest cargo hub in the world when I worked there, not sure about today, but I know it's still super busy.

[@coltinyancey3671]

That moment when Wendover shows a place youve been. I worked in the international terminal at Ted Steven in Anchorage. The airport now specializes in cargo aircraft, with only limited pax flights.

[@rosskrt]

Well, this aged like fine milk.

[@glambor1]

You totally missed Finnair monopoly over Siberia….

[@RK870XK]

they deem Siberian Airspace too costly before the fall of the USSR

[@Crabentos]

nobody cares.

[@bathshebahubber614]

@@Crabentos I care and so do 48 others

[@andersn4169]

When you talked about why Anchorage was so important, make a video about the Atlantic flights to Shannon and why it was so important!

[@noisycricket.10yearsand29]

Ngl ur profile pic looks like an Anders N

[@iamthinking2252_]

ETOPS, right?

[@jdrogers1969]

Will there be an update to this video?

[@dimbasz]

Ahem.. EU, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, Korea and Japan imposed thousands of sanctions including banned usage of their airspace by Russian plane so Russia did the same. Ticket prices went up, as well as flight distances. That's the update)

[@madeintexas3d442]

This video did not age well but it is also infinitely more relevant so maybe it did.

[@TaranVH]

Hold on, this is dumb. Does Russia get to have their cake and eat it, too? They didn't sign the Civil organization aviation transit agreement. So they get to deny overflight rights, or charge a lot of money for those rights... But surely it goes both ways? If they're not part of that agreement, shouldn't they also have to PAY a lot of money, to fly their own flights over Asian and European airspace? Hey, Canada's got a lot of land, too...

[@Neomalthusiano]

You guys already do that in maritime boundaries.

[@masonm1124]

Taran Van Hemert Only one word can solve why they do it, communism.

[@ahtu7000]

The Mason dude what does this mean?

[@ensteffo]

+Taran Van Hemert The US and their minion countries already strong arm most of the world. If the world should follow your thought process non hypocritically the US, UK , France etc. would need to be embargoed. You are not a hypocrite are you?

[@TaranVH]

@Luis Sure, I understand that expensive infrastructure and labor is required to support planes flying overhead. But Canada has the exact same problem as Russia -- lots of land, very cold temperatures. Yet, the Canadians don't charge $100 per person per overflight. I don't have all the numbers, but this video seems to be saying that Russia is behaving unfairly. I'm all in favor of them being paid what they're worth.

[@namenamename390]

Well, this video is suddenly relevant again. As of now, Russia has closed its airspace to, I think it's 36 countries.

[@tvguide4khv]

Also Russia maintain a airports on the routes to allow airlines safe emergency landings.

[@robertn2951]

Like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17)

[@AlexBeau9]

@@robertn2951 That was in Ukraine.

[@magellanmax]

Good point! Nothing is free.

[@kap1526]

@@robertn2951 that wasn't in Russia buddy .

[@robertn2951]

@@ElenaRomanova21 Tell that to the families who lost a loved one because shot down by the Russians

[@Super-chad]

I really love the narrative of this video; it's so comprehensive...

[@JRPGGUY]

can we get more train videos?

[@Pilot-ATC]

Game Head nope

[@JRPGGUY]

Cal Bono Clearly want them from him because I like his style

[@SiguysGaming]

i with ya. the plane to train balance is all out of wack

Game Head choo choo my name is Thomas

[@CP-ym9uc]

Yeah

[@katied5314]

This is some solid journalism. Love your channel!

[@tomkelly8827]

I flew from Toronto Canada to Beijing and we went over Alaska and Siberia. I had no idea that it was a big deal to fly there. Thanks for sharing this video.

[@cizza7581]

WELL THIS HAS NOT FUCKING AGED WELL

[@krrk6337]

Planeover Productions

[@syrup7894]

Europe: HOW DO WE GET TO TOKYO!!?! Alaska: I got u b

[@tharqal2764]

This video aged well!

[@sieem07]

Woah, this video came after watching your latest "Air Cargo's Coronavirus Problem ", what a difference in your voice. So much deeper and slower it is than here. It took me a while to recognize your voice here, even though I'm already subscribed for years on your channel. Anyhow, your voice improved a lot, apparently!

[@vinaynagashetti]

This was really informative, Thank You. Please also make a history of how the USSR planes traveled to other nations. Also the role of Air India in the relation. Cheers

[@choof.]

just rename your channel to "iloveplanes123" already

[@peter_smyth]

HibernateMC Have you tried that as his password?

[@Bassguitarist192]

Add andoccassionallytrains

[@lucasdarius413]

Bassguitarist192 nah that's too long now.

[@ZioStalin]

in the description of the channel ;)

[@uss_04]

Another Quality Video from Layover Productions ;)

[@kutswastanley7465]

I like how you people link the topic of discussion and the 'sponsor' of the video to pull a Brilliant advert. Good work!

[@jayfoe9976]

wow that's something new i never thought of or heard of before. thanks!

[@asadullahnaweed7097]

Well, I guess ANC is making a comeback soon.

[@jihadismail8527]

nop , the Asian countries still use the Russian airspace , Russian banned the west airlines only , which gives the asian airlines huge advantage over the western airlines . so expect the west to start crying soon ))

[@barnabasborsodi-nagy5646]

The Silk Road problem in the 21st century

[@AntzWilkz]

Maybe now we can enjoy a few days in Alaska again!

[@Unicalnetwork]

ALASKA AIRLINES: STONKS

[@dasdaleberger5683]

I thought we didn't fly over the poles because flat earthers would shoot you down. Thanks for clearing that up.

[@carultch]

Actually, flat Earthers believe in a map of Earth that corroborates everyone else's understanding of the north pole, and allows for polar flights in the Arctic. It is the map of the Antarctic that flat Earthers deny. And they bring up the fact that there are very few flights over Antarctica. But the truth is that the three population centers of the Southern Hemisphere (Chile/Argentina, Sydney Australia, and South Africa) all form a triangle around Antarctica, such that there is no need to fly over Antarctica on such flights. The great circles pass through the oceans alone. There is a Qantas flight between Sydney and Santiago, that would be impossible if the flat Earth conspiracy theorists were correct.

[@Jsb078]

I work for norwegian airlines and believe me, we had plans to fly to Japan, Hong Kong and more, but Russia has stopped us in every single way. Very frustrating indeed but now we’re expanding more to Africa, Brazil and hopefully soon the Caribbean. Until then SAS and Russia have the routes.

[@supportervandeeuropeseunie1625]

Jsb078 Then why isn't Norwegian flying around Russia like Finnair? 3:54

[@Mkungaa]

So Norway signed agreement in 1956 with Russia and created SAS's monopoly in Scandinavia. Nowadays Norwegian officials makes zero effort to sign new agreement. And yet you blame Russia? Yep, seems like that is how you do things in west now - just blame Russia in every situation. Even if your government sucks - just blame Russians. OMFG, so retarded...

[@vladilenkalatschev4915]

in the 60-70 there were some code share flights between Aeroflot and such airlines as JAL and KLM using Aeroflot aircrafts with mixed cabin crews. It was done in order to fly over the SU

[@aslanbekabdulkadyrov6717]

Back when I was living in little siberian town called Nadym (Yamal) my flat's windows was to the lake side with open view. All the time when I was watching to the lake side I was seeing plane passing by high in the clouds. Much later I knew that I was watching major air route

[@travelvideos]

Finnair had right to fly over Russia because of their "special relationship". Normally passengers would choose to fly Aeroflot to Asia.

[@erik_griswold]

travelvideos Finns built the SVO-2 Terminal (I think it is “F” now) for the 1980 Olympics

[@supportervandeeuropeseunie1625]

travelvideos I can understand it. The USSR was frightened as fuck to ignite a Second Winter War.

[@artiombeknazaryan7542]

Exept the USSR won that war and got all of Karelia ))) and new border pushing it far away from St Peterburg.

[@Scherzo7]

Supporter van de Europese Unie No, it’s because the Finns were never actually as dumb as yourself and knew well how to milk both the Soviets and the Western countries for cash

[@Scherzo7]

Yes, that's exactly why today Finland is on very good terms with both Russia and the West. Lots of Finnish businesses investing here

[@Avantime]

Most Western airlines did fly Trans-Siberian from Europe to Asia, although it was nowhere near the most popular route, as it requires a stopover at Moscow, and airlines could only use 707s and DC-8s. KLM at one time did a joint venture with Aeroflot to fly the Europe-Japan route, using leased Soviet IL-62 airliners, and Japan Airlines had a similar arrangement. For international students during the Cold War the cheapest way to fly Europe-Japan is usually Aeroflot.

[@sovietunionsmostnotoriousk5031]

Wow Air plans to start flying between Reykjavik and Delhi by December 2018. Fast forward to March 2019. wOw

[@sheenushandilya]

Indians may help to negotiate overflight

[@andrewrg6417]

Anchorage definitely gets multiple flights a day. It's Alaska's main international airport and during the summer, thousands of people from all over the world come to visit. Even in the winter when tourism is significantly decreased, there will still be flights to other places in Alaska, Canada, and a couple in the lower 48, usually Seattle.