Have to wonder now whether there will be a rethink of flying over other troublespots - no matter what assurances may be in place.

It always surprised my that many fly over Afghanistan for instance.

Right now on FlightRadar, I see that SQ321 (LHR-SIN) and MAS1 (LHR-KUL) are both flying close together over NW Iran. Both flightpaths show a dip to the south - well away from any Russian airspace as well as the Caucasus area.

Got sent a video of the crash seen.Not real nice.Not going to share the link.Aussies numbers are up on the 23

Not quite. MH129 is operated by an A330, in fact think all Australian flights operated by MH wide body aircraft are A330's now.

The link between MH17 and MH129 is 100 passengers on MH17 were connecting to MH129 for an AIDS conference but different A/C.

That kind of makes it hard to get from eastern Asia to Europe. Most of the countries in the central/western asia region that end in "an" are troublespots in one form or another. That would leave a flight path over the middle east, which also has issues, then up over the Adriatic countries, which too have in the past had their fair of issues too.

Read reports that Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Air Kazakstan and Etihad all flew over Ukraine following the incident when other airlines decided to change course.

Emirates turned its own Kiev-bound flight back to Dubai and has suspended the service with immediate effect and until further notice, according to their website.

Singapore have flown over the Ukraine in the past (I have been on at least one flight that did) but after last nights close call (they apparently had a flight about 25km away) they have suddenly changed their routing (though the airspace is now closed in any case it seems). The following now appears on the SQ website:

"Singapore Airlines would like to advise customers that we are no longer using the Ukrainian airspace and have re-routed all our flights to alternative flight paths that are away from the region."

Hi All,

Ash W Not quite true. According to Flightaware YMML still gets a B772 on MH149 . Departs 2350 and arrives 0820+1

Stuart

MEL gets 2x daily A330 and 1 daily B772.9M-MRD was in MEL last week.

Hence the word THINK.