Do commercial airplanes fly over Syria?
Joseph
Actually they do but it depends on an airline. There are still some airlines that fly to and from Damascus, so obviously they have no choice but to fly over Syria. Middle East Airlines' flights from Beirut to the Persian Gulf also pass over Syria. Website flightradar24.com shows the position of practically every passenger and cargo aircraft that's in the air in the world at any given time. As I write this answer, flightradar24 shows five commercial flights in the Syrian airspace, one that will be entering Syria shortly and one that just existed Syria. (It's about 10 o'click at night in Syria right now; there maybe more flights during the day.)
nico
Actually they do but it depends on an airline. There are still some airlines that fly to and from Damascus, so obviously they have no choice but to fly over Syria. Middle East Airlines' flights from Beirut to the Persian Gulf also pass over Syria. Website flightradar24.com shows the position of practically every passenger and cargo aircraft that's in the air in the world at any given time. As I write this answer, flightradar24 shows five commercial flights in the Syrian airspace, one that will be entering Syria shortly and one that just existed Syria. (It's about 10 o'click at night in Syria right now; there maybe more flights during the day.)
Rona Lachat
Some do and some do not. For the purpose of a many thousand mile flight going around Syria is a few minutes of extra travel time. Airlines rarely fly an exact straight route many turns along the way. MOST flights go East and North of Syria on their way to Istanbul. Some go to the south and west of Syria. Very few go over Syria unless they are landing in Syria. Turkish Airline is well aware of the problems in the region and routes their planes accordingly. Not hard to check hundreds of flights enroute to Istanbul to see where MOST of them go. https://flightaware.com/live/airport/LTBA
A88234P
No, never during a war
Evan
depends on the flight path. If it eases any fears, a commercial airliner flies at 500+mph and 30,000+ feet. You are not in range of anything. Plus, neither side of the Syrian civil war would have a thing to gain by shooting at a passenger jet, in fact doing so would only bring more foreign armies into the mess. Your fine. Edit. Also your being thrown off by "direct" becuase your looking at a 3 dimensional spherical planet laid out on a flat 1 dimensional map. The shortest path between 2 points is a straight line, but in reality that straight line in most flights is a bow curve, you can find the flight path on the airlines website, but you really have nothing to worry about.