The blog article before this one examines the practice of routing civil flights through designated conflict zones when there are lower-risk alternatives. The main subjects were Emirates and Turkish Airlines.

Maybe Emirates was listening, because this morning it didn’t route its Dubai-Oslo schedule (EK159) through Iran and Russia as it did yesterday. Instead it took the route pictured below (courtesy of Flightradar24).

We also noticed yesterday that Turkish Airlines re-routed its Istanbul-Mumbai schedule to avoid Iranian airspace.

Also possible as an explanation for the changes is that Emirates – and Turkish Airlines – have carried out a dispatch risk assessment and decided that the gathering of American military task forces in the region, combined with White House sabre-rattling directed at Teheran, cannot be ignored.

Emirates, incidentally, has not replied to my questions about its routeing choices.

Sensible routeing choices. Finally.