Flying to Georgia/Turkey/Egypt is even longer now: all planes are allowed only bypassing Moscow

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На русском языке: Лететь в Грузию/Турцию/Египет стало ещё дольше: все самолёты пускают в облёт Москвы

This morning, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported that another UAV was detected in Moscow oblast. Due to this, they closed the whole airspace over Moscow and all Moscow airports.

Flying to Georgia/Turkey/Egypt is even longer now: all planes are allowed only bypassing Moscow

Planes are flying bypassing Moscow in the morning of August 21, 2023 / Flightradar24

As a consequence, at the moment all planes, which are flying to Turkey/Georgia/Egypt, etc. from Belarus, bypass Moscow, and this adds 30 minutes to the flight time. Moreover, a plane of the Aeroflot flight that left Minsk for Moscow in the morning turned around on approach and flew back to Minsk.

At 09:06, a plane on the flight BRU975 flew from Minsk to Sheremetyevo and the delay of departure was 1 hour 17 minutes.
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