2d:null 2e:["$","title",null,{"children":"Flying to Kaliningrad during the Russian flight ban | Open Aviation | Observable"}] 33:T61e,Actually, the European ban of Russian flights is only implemented within the national airspaces of each country: all what is beyond the 12 nautical miles limit in **dashed lines** may be encompassed by a FIR, i.e. an area where Air traffic control (ATC) services are provided by a country, but will not be part of the ban. As a matter of fact, according to the section “Right of Transit Passage” in [Chapter 3](https://sites.tufts.edu/lawofthesea/chapter-three/) ${citations.get('lots')}: > *The right of transit passage is defined as the exercise of the freedoms of navigation and overflight, solely for the purpose of continuous and expeditious transit through an international strait between one part of the high seas or an EEZ and another part of the high seas or an EEZ, in the normal modes of operation utilized by ships and aircraft for such passage.*

Maritime Zones Schematic — Legal Boundaries of the Oceans and Airspace, Chapter 2 ${citations.get('lots')}.

In our situation, there is a **thin strip between FIRs** where Russian aircraft are still allowed to fly to connect Kaliningrad and mainland Russia: - flight plans are still filed along this thin strip, along the navigational points on the map; - air traffic control continues to provide services and keep in constant communication with all aircraft. For comparison, here are **the same flights before February 27th**:34:T9a8,kaliningrad_map = function ( flights, { scale = 1, caption = undefined, title = undefined } ) { return Plot.carto({ projection: d3 .geoMercator() .translate([(0.9 * width) / 2, (0.7 * width) / 2]) .center([27, 58]) .scale(1800) .clipExtent([ [1, 1], [0.9 * width - 1, 0.7 * width - 1] ]), marks: [ Plot.features(firsAt(300), { fill: (d) => d.properties.designator.slice(0, 1) === "U" ? "#9ecae944" : "#005bbb44", strokeWidth: 3, stroke: "#005bbb", title: (d) => d.properties.name }), Plot.features(countries.features, { title: (d) => d.properties.sovereignt, fill: (d) => ["Russia", "Belarus"].includes(d.properties.sovereignt) ? "#ced4da" : "#005bbb99", stroke: "black" }), Plot.features( territorial.features.filter((d) => d.properties.MBLSZOTPID === 1), { stroke: "black", strokeDasharray: [5, 5], strokeWidth: 1.5 } ), Plot.features(flights, { stroke: "#ffd500", strokeWidth: 2 }), // NAVAIDs Plot.features(navaids), Plot.label(navaids, { lonLat: (d) => d.coordinates, fill: "black", text: (d) => d.properties.name, dx: -7, fontSize: 12, textAnchor: "end", halo: true }), // AIRPORTs Plot.features(airports, { fill: "red" }), Plot.label(airports, { lonLat: (d) => d.coordinates, fill: "black", text: (d) => d.properties.icao, textAnchor: "middle", fontSize: 14, dx: 25, dy: 5, halo: true }), // COUNTRY LABELs Plot.label(country_labels, { lonLat: (d) => d.coordinates, fill: "green", text: (d) => d.properties.name, textAnchor: "middle", fontSize: 16, dx: 7, dy: 16, halo: true }), Plot.features(capitals, { fill: "black", r: 2 }), Plot.label(capitals, { lonLat: (d) => d.coordinates, fill: "black", text: (d) => d.properties.name, textAnchor: "end", fontSize: 10, dx: -7, dy: 2, halo: true }) ], width: 0.9 * width, height: 0.7 * width, scale, caption, title }); }35:T53d,bibtex = [ `@book{lots, title={Law of the Sea: A Policy Primer}, author={{The Fletcher School’s LL.M. Program in International Law & Maritime Studies Program}}, year={2017}, url={https://sites.tufts.edu/lawofthesea/} } @book{sea-bund, title={Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM)}, note={version 11}, url = {https://www.marineregions.org/}, doi={10.14284/386}, author={{Flanders Marine Institute}}, year={2019} } @book{eea-maritime, title={Maritime Boundaries}, author={{European Environmental Agency}}, year={2005}, url={https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/maritime-boundaries} } @book{eurosion, title={D2.3.3 Eurosion Dataset Structure Description}, author={Eurosion}, url={http://www.eurosion.org/reports-online/databasestructure.pdf}, year={2003} } @inproceedings{Schaefer14a, author = "Schäfer, Matthias and Strohmeier, Martin and Lenders, Vincent and Martinovic, Ivan and Wilhelm, Matthias", title = "{Bringing Up OpenSky: A Large-scale ADS-B Sensor Network for Research}", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks", series = "IPSN '14", year = 2014, address = "Berlin, Germany", pages = "83-94", month = "April", pdf = "https://opensky-network.org/files/publications/ipsn2014.pdf" } ` ]36:[{"id":"61d0aa79ac97c667461f7a5efe63246629b6142ac979f23e3aa34efc6619db43bf269169ac20e1005628a41b203a3b2f78fdef8e3c7a8d0e008a31295967f1f8","href":"https://static.observableusercontent.com/files/61d0aa79ac97c667461f7a5efe63246629b6142ac979f23e3aa34efc6619db43bf269169ac20e1005628a41b203a3b2f78fdef8e3c7a8d0e008a31295967f1f8","name":"eez-topo.json.zip","type":"application/zip","lastModified":1647287407121.124,"size":8603032},{"id":"63847edb95e8d0994d56c785cb096c35d8f8d873dd55d9018d0d598c6db4b251b8fcf9cb962e3f16397927e825215aa34950a586fa22ae20468e04917a610929","href":"https://static.observableusercontent.com/files/63847edb95e8d0994d56c785cb096c35d8f8d873dd55d9018d0d598c6db4b251b8fcf9cb962e3f16397927e825215aa34950a586fa22ae20468e04917a610929","name":"maritime_boundaries.zip","type":"application/zip","lastModified":1647287407121.124,"size":2076410},{"id":"1bb4ed21dc65826ed7950baabf18177ef6f61ddde4f90461b90686ec1ee29753a2726f69324184fd40d6593a42666d06b9a0cd6830630c5d0d2b5cd322d5caac","href":"https://static.observableusercontent.com/files/1bb4ed21dc65826ed7950baabf18177ef6f61ddde4f90461b90686ec1ee29753a2726f69324184fd40d6593a42666d06b9a0cd6830630c5d0d2b5cd322d5caac","name":"kaliningrad_trajectories.parquet","type":"application/octet-stream","lastModified":1647335493402.456,"size":3251447}] 31:{"id":"d8011515b1d19b2d","slug":"flying-to-kaliningrad","title":"Flying to Kaliningrad during the Russian flight ban","thumbnail":"141abf2a11de63671b8c79206d49000d20e49eb1fde9ad4937582d34602939f8","access_level":"public","create_time":"$D2022-03-14T19:50:07.121Z","update_time":"$D2022-03-15T12:32:07.846Z","view_time":null,"first_public_time":"$D2022-03-14T20:31:44.188Z","has_unpublished_edits":null,"fork":true,"stars":12,"starred":false,"owner":{"type":"team","id":"b72632526f8c9afb","login":"openaviation","name":"Open Aviation","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/785c72955c757d5479584b620b48d5133f1f6ac3b42119b2b2445045440f0b09","tier":"starter_2024"},"version":900,"publish_version":null,"role":null,"authored":false,"authors":[{"type":"individual","id":"0b2e8d88aeec5ab4","login":"xoolive","name":"Xavier Olive","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/e055a445877c5a8ee2da134a257760536c2d1ee2fcd43f3aaf3f40db54e13733","tier":null},{"type":"individual","id":"45a379fcfcb14253","login":"fil","name":"Fil","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/d5b1777907117a2bdf2a07eb98600d7a9beb21639fde42b9753e95c88c7731a6","tier":null},{"type":"individual","id":"c2f17e4031105178","login":"espinielli","name":"Enrico Spinielli","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/2bf5259d0c49a57cec6acc725062bdc41374a518de8772a2a051315f6be64567","tier":null}],"members":[{"type":"team","id":"b72632526f8c9afb","login":"openaviation","name":"Open Aviation","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/785c72955c757d5479584b620b48d5133f1f6ac3b42119b2b2445045440f0b09","tier":"starter_2024","role":"editor"},{"type":"individual","id":"0b2e8d88aeec5ab4","login":"xoolive","name":"Xavier Olive","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/e055a445877c5a8ee2da134a257760536c2d1ee2fcd43f3aaf3f40db54e13733","tier":null,"role":"editor"}],"comments":[],"custom_thumbnail":true,"trashed":false,"lapsed":null,"subscribed":null,"forks":2,"collection":{"id":"720ac08ffd66c964","slug":"open-aviation","title":"Visualizing Aviation","owner":{"id":"b72632526f8c9afb","login":"openaviation","name":"Open Aviation"}},"type":"notebook","body":{"title":"Flying to Kaliningrad during the Russian flight ban","cells":[{"id":531,"value":"

series: impact of the ukraine invasion on commercial aviation

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