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Hi,
We recently flew to the Philippines (some pics to follow some might find interesting, hopefully). Our departure from LHR was delayed about an hour, the reason the Captain gave was that "China had decided to close some of the airspace on our route", hence we needed to take on some more fuel and obtain some more paperwork.
Couple of questions, one being why would China decide to do this, and secondly, what would happen if they had decided to close the airspace while we were in mid flight?, Would there needed to have been an unscheduled stop?.
The Carrier was Cathay, who were brilliant, even though we traveled "Chickens and hens class" it was a good flight both ways, on time (made some up on the way somehow) and the crews were fantastic.
We recently flew to the Philippines (some pics to follow some might find interesting, hopefully). Our departure from LHR was delayed about an hour, the reason the Captain gave was that "China had decided to close some of the airspace on our route", hence we needed to take on some more fuel and obtain some more paperwork.
Couple of questions, one being why would China decide to do this, and secondly, what would happen if they had decided to close the airspace while we were in mid flight?, Would there needed to have been an unscheduled stop?.
The Carrier was Cathay, who were brilliant, even though we traveled "Chickens and hens class" it was a good flight both ways, on time (made some up on the way somehow) and the crews were fantastic.
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