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Travel
Rich Thomaselli

Airlines get creative with routes that formerly flew over Russia

Well, if you ever wanted to fly over the Arctic and the polar ice caps, here's your chance.

Airlines are devising new ways to overcome being banned from Russian airspace and going over the Arctic Circle is one of them, according to CNN.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine spawned a series of economic sanctions by the United States and its western allies, including banning Russian commercial and cargo planes from airspace in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Russia retaliated by doing the same and closing its airspace.

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