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- 1Traveller takes Arctic route from Melbourne to Shetland to avoid Middle East●# travel I am in Helsinki on way to Shetland. Melbourne to Narita then over Alaska and Greenland. Extreme measures to av
A traveller flying from Melbourne to Shetland reports being in Helsinki after a remarkably circuitous journey: Melbourne to Narita in Japan, then a polar routing over Alaska and Greenland. The detour was taken, they say, as an extreme measure to avoid Middle East airspace, adding a stop in Helsinki before the final leg to Shetland.