Y'all just quote articles without reading them smh
Planes have very strict rules regarding their flight routes, due to both safety and political reasons.
For example,
flights going over Tibet are banned due to the mountain ranges in the region.
However frequent fliers may not realise that planes also don’t fly over Antarctica either albeit an entirely different reason.
Whilst charter flights may still be able to fly over it, commercial airlines rarely do.
This was a charter flight.
Man it's so embarrassing when people just devalue science like this

That's why we're so behind other ethnicities SMH