FlightRadar24 - high traffic following invasion

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Is anyone else monitoring the air traffic on FlightRadar24? There was an 8 minute wait to get on to the website!

Lots of military aircraft.

Just had a look at that flight (RA2794)..he appears to be heading very much north west from Moscow which doesn’t fit in with a route to London…they tend to head due west.

I wonder the destination in Flightradar is wrong, be interesting to see where it ends up (looking at the track maybe only as far as St Petersburg…)

@YouSayYesISayNo

Yes, I’m watching that private (Hawker) jet from Moscow currently heading towards Biggin Hill airport near London.

Perhaps it’s an oligarch who may be unaware that he’s unable to enter the UK. OTOH it may be a British (or UK based) business executive whom has been in Russia for meetings or has been resident in Russia as an expat and relocating back to the UK.

The oil company BP announced today that it is getting rid of its interests in Russia, they may be bringing back Moscow based staff back to the UK?

RAF Eurofighter Typhoon going back and forth over Bulgaria

I think the London to Istanbul plane is a bit lost…

Interesting group of bombardiers over Latvia/Lithuania and 2 further ahead towards Moscow.

@Yellow85

Interesting group of bombardiers over Latvia/Lithuania and 2 further ahead towards Moscow.

I’m watching those first two. They crossed the borders at a similar time and now seem to be heading towards Moscow. A bit of googling suggests the Global 6000 could be a private plane (ogilarch heading home?) but the only reference i can find to a Challenger 650 relates to reconnaissance or surveying…

@TheHoleNineYards Those 2 have moved together for hours, annoyed I didn’t catch their starting point…at one point I thought they were heading for the Belarusian border. The other 2 split over Lithuania. If they were Russian, I’m not sure why they wouldn’t fly over Belarus airspace?

Well…..RA2794 from Moscow to Biggin Hill (London) ended up in St.Petersburg, Russia and is currently (11.09pm Sunday evening) flying to…Moscow

And that’s the other 2 crossed into Russia now

Interesting thread!

How is A3882 able to land in Moscow from Athens?

There was a b52 us plane that took off from uk to poland and back, 2 days ago

No sign of any military aircraft at all now over Poland, Romania or the Black Sea.

NATO, RAF, USAF & Army and French Air Force are all up.

Not all military flights show on FR24, some don’t show on any of the trackers.

Do any of you have a subscription to flightradar and is it worth it? Do you have silver or gold.

From a quick look at Twitter it seems that more airspace has been closed to Russian flights, it will be interesting to see how they navigate around it.

@doodlejump1980

I think the London to Istanbul plane is a bit lost…

? Istanbul….?

That looks like an Aurora spotting flight..any idea where it ended up landing?

Maybe it's impossible to avoid Russian airspace completely.

Well you can, but it might mean a heck of a lot of fuel/flight time and maybe an intermediate stop somewhere for refuel and a crew change..

@notimagain

Maybe it's impossible to avoid Russian airspace completely.

Well you can, but it might mean a heck of a lot of fuel/flight time and maybe an intermediate stop somewhere for refuel and a crew change..

Think I read avoiding Russia from uk to east would add 90 mins. I was expecting it to be longer

Obviously depends on destinations and flight direction (due headwinds)…for example West bound from India/or e.g. Singapore to London it was quite usual anyway for flights to go on a southerly route over in part Turkey, so Russia not an issue.

OTOH because of prevailing winds London> India/SIngapore often routed further north over Kiev and then parts of Russia, that option has obviously gone for now…..so I can imagine a 90 minute extension to some flights.

Europe/Japan will be much more of a problem for European airlines for example many years back when the Russians were very sensitive about overflights BA used to operate to Japan via Alaska with a refueling stop in Anchorage….wonder if we will see that starting to happen again- albeit non-stop now due to the increased range aircraft generally have.

That said ATM due to Covid and drop in demand BA and JAL codeshare on the London-Tokyo route with JAL doing the actual flying, and AFAIK JAL are still overflying Russia.

@tapdancingmum

Do any of you have a subscription to flightradar and is it worth it? Do you have silver or gold.

I just run on the basic package thingy and that works good enough for me

That's a tight flight corridor