Quote (card_sultan @ Dec 11 2017 12:27pm)
also planes are not allowed to fly over the North pole or over the South pole - should tell you somethings up
Oh man, good point. Totally something's up with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_routeQuote
Arctic polar routes are now common on airlines connecting Asian cities (Bangkok, Beijing, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo) to North American cities (New York City, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Montreal, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington, D.C.). Emirates flies nonstop from Dubai to the US West Coast (San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles), coming within a few degrees of latitude of the North Pole.[17][18]
Oh wait, wait, I know! These flights are TOO RARE to matter, right?