Yes.....always a window seat for me!Well, I see I'm not the only one around here for whom "flightseeing" is part of the air travel experience.
Just about every flight between the Maritimes and central Canada is in US airspace over Maine. Easily 100+ flights/day and I've never noticed any difference in service. The beer I had would have been served about a half hour into the flight.... so somewhere around Brownville Jct.It would be interesting to see if the service crew has to operate any differently while flying over USA "airspace" than not... I know, for example for some jetway routes. they have/had to stop serving alcohol when flying over the airspace of certain states.... Not that there would be much enforcement unless someone was, actually, on the flight, but...
And in reverse:I believe a lot of flights between Vancouver and Toronto also fly over US Airspace as well.
One of the busiest of US domestic routes, Chicago-New York, as short as it is, often cuts across SW Ontario.Then again, some Seattle to New York flights do fly over Canadian airspace as do flights from the lower 48 to Alaska. These are all governed by the ICAO First Freedom of the Air rules and related bilateral or multilateral agreements. The individual States within a Country entering such agreements have very little say in those matters..
During times of hostility First Freedom rights sometimes do get suspended. During 1971 for example Indian planes were not allowed to overfly Pakistan and vice versa, which was a way bigger headache for Pakistan since they had to circumnavigate India to get to East Pakistan until mid-December when East Pakistan ceased to be a part of Pakistan. Then it was just India's headache to avoid Pakistan on the way to Europe, until the whole thing went away as a result of the Simla Accord.
Hopefully US and Canada will not get into such levels of hostility anytime soon.
Incidentally, Americans sometimes are very surprised to learn that Iran allows overflight of its territory by US Commercial flights. Afterall, why not collect some revenue from overflight fees? Couple of time the United flight that I was on overflew close to Meshad.
First make sure that the airline that you are flying, allows them. Not all airlines allow them.I've never thought about bringing a GPS along. I might have to do that next time.
I am somewhat surprised that they are allowed...I had thought that all devices that contained any sort of 'radio' within were banned in flight.First make sure that the airline that you are flying, allows them. Not all airlines allow them.I've never thought about bringing a GPS along. I might have to do that next time.
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