Moses

Well, "someone" was Islamic terrorist, but who cares, right? Sure. Inbound tourism in Russia at past year was 4 mln, at this year it expected to be 5 mln. So, to the end of 2024 Russia expects to have 9 mln hostages in total. But the topic is that Western airlines have lost the competition to Chinese companies and are fleeing routes with destinations to China

well, nobody force you to read this

And speaking about risks: Chinese flights from LA or Chicago have much more of options for emergency landing, than American flights over ocean where are no airports on the distance 4000 km.

Sorry, you have not that many options:

Fast and cheap Chinese and Indian routes and slow and expensive other routes.

Malaysia flight downed from territory of Ukraine in the sky of Ukraine, and since that time is very easy recognize territory of Ukraine on the Flightradar maps:

The truth is more simple: many airlines lose competition to Chinese airlines and cutting their routes. Chinese flights are more cheap and less time consuming. source: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/all-flights-into-europe-must-avoid-russia-fair-competition-lufthansa-says-2024-10-16/ source: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/transport-logistics/europes-airlines-dial-pressure-face-chinese-threat

could you please explain how you made such conclusion from article with words ?

Well and that means what more than half don't think so.

shortest route to Beijing (and China + India in general) from Canada and most part of US is via North pole, and that route is closed for airlines from non-BRIKS countries.. That why Vancouver - New Delhi nonstop route is serving by Air India alone.

When a person runs out of arguments to counter, he moves on to discussing the personality of the opponent.

Steve, dear, what you'll wrote here, if Trump will win?

Aeroflot. They have good marketing, since even you know about their existence, although the company does not even have 200 planes. Aeroflot is a medium-sized company and the fact that it cannot fly to Europe now does not particularly bother anyone here - the company carries passengers and remains profitable. But giants like Delta have to bear losses. Today I looked at the schedules, AirIndia flies from Vancouver to India, from Amsterdam too. Alone. And European airlines survive only by making joint flights with AirChina and ChinaSouthern. Isn't this the topic? European and American companies are losing to Chinese and Indian ones because their home governments have put them in conditions where they cannot fly the shortest routes, their flights are 1-2 hours longer and tickets are 15-20% more expensive. That's why they are leaving the Chinese market - they can't compete. Clients prefer to fly with Chinese companies - it's faster and cheaper.

it isn't about investments, it is about Lichtman...

...or not Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. (you may read that everywhere - it is mandatory warning by law)

Due to political decisions by their governments, Western airlines have become uncompetitive on Chinese and Indian routes and are forced to reduce flights or even stop them altogether because tourists do not fly on their flights. This is a forced action for Western airlines, forced into it by short-sighted decisions by their governments.

I'm quoting the same source which is linked in opening post. Just click it:

In the first seven months of this year, the number of foreign visitors to China soared 129.9 percent year on year to 17.25 million, said Liu Haitao, NIA deputy head, at a press conference. Meanwhile, a total of 341 million cross-border travels were recorded, up 62.34 percent from the same period of last year. And almost all were served by Chinese airlines. West again shoots own legs.

it is too early for Russian season in SEA: Turkey, Greece, Cyprus still have nice weather and warm sea, and they are much more close to European part of Russia. Most Russians what you see now in Thailand are mostly from Siberia and Far East.

JC, sure

Yeah. No noise from bar. Noise from nasty kids playing around pool from very morning time... I ran from Zing after one night stay there.

Nope. It is small indoor pool with wooden sauna cabin in the corner for 4-5 persons, huge window to hotel's yard and few training machines. And it is unisex. Public nudity prohibited including space of sauna cabin. At least it was like this when I visited it before covid. They had idea to change it to spa zone. There zero left from past Ganymede gay sauna.

why should he wait? you book em after landing and finishing all border and custom procedures... waiting for car arrival time usually is 3-7 min depends on time of the day.

By using apps you don't have to communicate with driver at all: start point, end point, price - everything is fixed by app. All you have - to find correct car with number on car plate on the place of start point what is shown to you by app and sit into. Ok, also to say "hello" and to fasten your seatbelt. And you are sure: you got fair price, no scam, no cheating.