$130000000.00 it's been used in iraq afghanistan north africa and parts of the asia pacific region matthew driscoll is the editor of asian aviation he joins us now live via skype from singapore good to have you with us matthew so we have the u.s. federal aviation authority saying that no u.s. aircraft can now fly over that area of the straits of hormuz british airways quantum scale them followed suit how much of an impact is this going to have on international aviation how busy is that area that geographic area. actually i've got flight radar 24 up on one of my screens here in my office and it's an incredibly busy area i mean. by all the middle eastern carriers there's a lot of traffic that goes through that area and i think that that's a problem in the short term problem is everybody's going to have to do some rerouting or recruiting. so the flights may take a little bit longer they may have to put on some more fuel that may increase costs a little bit for the airlines but i think the f.a.a. and the airlines are acting out of an over abundance of caution which is a good thing because they don't wa

security council has been scheduled james out jazeera at the united nations matthew driscoll is the editor of asian aviation news magazine he says that commercial airlines are trying to.

airlines so already direct flights to avoid radium controlled airspace over the gulf of oman matthew driscoll this the end it's aviation news magazine he says commercial airlines are trying to avoid getting caught in the potential crossfire it's an incredibly busy area i mean . dubai all the middle eastern carriers there's a lot of traffic that goes through that area and i think that that's the problem the short term problem is everybody's going to have to do some rerouting or recruiting. so the flights may take a little bit longer they may have to put on some more fuel that may increase costs a little bit for the airlines but i think the f.a.a. and the airlines are acting out of an over abundance of caution which is a good thing because they don't want to have another malaysian airlines that was shot down over the ukraine in 2014 and going back even further in history they don't have another iran air flight 655 that was shot down by the u.s. navy in july 1908 i'm actually looking at a british airways flight that left from new delhi and normally it would have a pretty straight shot over the g

security council has been scheduled jamesburg days out jazeera at the united nations matthew driscoll is the editor of asian aviation news magazine he says that commercial airlines are trying to avoid getting caught in the potential crossfire. it's an incredibly busy area i mean. dubai all the middle eastern carriers there's a lot of traffic that goes through that area and i think that that's a problem the short term problem is everybody's going to have to do some rerouting or recruiting. so the flights may take a little bit longer they may have to put on some more fuel that may increase costs a little bit for the airlines but i think the f.a.a. and the airlines are acting out of an over abundance of caution which is a good thing because they don't want to have another malaysian airlines that was shot down over the ukraine in 2014 and going back even further in history they don't have another iran air flight 655 that was shot down by the u.s. navy in july 1908 i'm actually looking at a british airways flight that left from new delhi and normally it would have a pretty straight shot ov