Flight Routes and Aviation Obsessions: Navigating from Seoul to Helsinki

Flying from Seoul, South Korea to Helsinki, Finland adds 50% to 70% extra miles. The blue lines equals actual flights. The dotted lines equals the shortest path. That’s because you wouldn’t want to confuse a jumbo jet for a Ukrainian drone. Oh man. it’s definitely safe to just not fly your plane over Russia right now. I have a weird, like. What’s that called? Um. I’ve got like, a sick obsession with, uh, like. Like aviation disasters. I think I’ve mentioned this before. It weirdly makes me feel better on planes, though. So there are two routes to fly now from Seoul, South Korea to Finland. This is a really funny example. I mean, we’re flying from Seoul, but did you know there’s only one country that separates North Korea from Finland, and that is just giant Russia? So one route for this flight is to fly over China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan. They might possibly be making a stop here in Azerbaijan and then flying over Turkey, Eastern Europe, and then finally landing in Helsinki. I think this is actually a direct flight. I think just maybe the arrows are drawn a little bit weird. I’m not 100%. Or you can fly north over the North Pole from Seoul, and that will also fly over Alaska. And I bet you this is visually quite the beautiful flight. I know that like, if I travel to Europe, it’s really cool. Sometimes we go over Greenland. That’s incredible. I wonder how long this flight would even Be only one company does it. It is Fin Air. It’s only a 13 hour flight, so not terrible. I mean, I’ve seen way worse. This resulted in a fairly significant drop in profits for Finn Air. I believe. We have lots of flights to Asia and they now have to circumnavigate Russia. I mean, thousand dollars is not great, but it’s also not as bad as it could be.