Travelling with Qatar Airways from Manchester, UK to Delhi, India with a connecting flight at Doha [closed]
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The journey from Manchester to Doha involves flying over Libya and Egypt but not the Sinai Peninsula, also the flight flies over Paris.
Is this safe?
Is Qatar airways taking a safe route or should I fly with a different airline like Etihad?
The news about Egypt and Emirates and unsafe zones such as Libya and just the recent news has got me nervous.
I have flown with Qatar before and the flight was very smooth, thank God.
EDIT: I am mostly worried about flying over or skirting over Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Syria because of recent news and because these are so called terrorist zones.
I had checked the route of the flight by using the routemap on Qatar Airways website and it should skirt over Libya and Egypt.
Best Answer
It's perfectly safe. Qatar Airways flights from Manchester to Doha actually do not pass over Libya or Egypt, but skirt east of Syria and Iraq by flying over Iran: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/QTR22/history/20160801/0800Z/EGCC/OTHH
This is precisely the same route as that flown by Etihad's Manchester flights: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ETD16/history/20160801/0810Z/EGCC/OMAA
I'm also not sure why you're worried about Paris, it requires very heavy weaponry to hit an airliner flying 10 km overhead.
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