{"id":418059,"date":"2026-04-30T23:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-do-planes-fly-over-arctic-not-antarctic\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:31:17","slug":"why-do-planes-fly-over-the-arctic-but-not-the-antarctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=418059","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Planes Fly Over The Arctic But Not The 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 &#8211; why is this the case?<\/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":[396,397,227,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-antarctica","category-routes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418059","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=418059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418060,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418059\/revisions\/418060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}