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Whilst I understand that weather and traffic often has adirect input into how a flight is routed Ive noticed some big differences inroutes taken by similar flights at the same time to the same destination.

 

For example Ive seen the MH & SQ flights which depart atalmost the same time take massively different routes and wondered why.

 

Today on flightradar24 Ive seen something similar whereby 2 EKflights to LGW + BHX are taking a more southerly route by the LHR flights isway to the north. Any ideas what elsecould cause these differences or is it a case of a pilot just wanting to take adifferent route?

An example is here (note the redline was manually drawn)

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Some of the reasons,

 

1. Route cost- some airways are cheaper than others

2. Weather en-route

3. Availability of airspace

4. En-route clearances

5. Political reasons

6. Geography reasons- High terrain en-route may not allow certain types of aircrafts

 

etc

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Some of the reasons,

 

1. Route cost- some airways are cheaper than others

2. Weather en-route

3. Availability of airspace

4. En-route clearances

5. Political reasons

6. Geography reasons- High terrain en-route may not allow certain types of aircrafts

 

etc

 

 

Just looking again. MAS 1 and SQ321 left LHR at roughly the same time yet MAS flying across mid germany inro Poland and SQ is hundreds of km to the south on a track over the Cech Replublic currently following EK6 to DXB.

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