{"id":334012,"date":"2025-12-21T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-planes-fly-over-arctic-not-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:00:16","slug":"why-do-planes-fly-over-the-arctic-but-not-antarctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=334012","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Planes Fly Over The Arctic But Not Antarctic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When tracking a long-haul flight on a map, it is common to see aircraft flying far north, sometimes appearing to pass close to the North Pole. Routes between North America,<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"16447\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/europe\/\"  >Europe<\/a><\/span>, and Asia routinely cross Greenland, northern Canada, or the Arctic Ocean. At the same time, scheduled commercial flights almost never cross Antarctica, even when connecting cities in the Southern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several commercial air routes exist over the Arctic, but none over the Antarctic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,227,696,6271,408,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-antarctica","category-cathay-pacific","category-etops","category-history","category-united-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334014,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334012\/revisions\/334014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}