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Do airliners follow high altitude airways?

Updated: 9/19/2023
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Jehanboy

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Airliners follow the airway where there is:

1) The least traffic

2) The most favorable winds,

3) The least turbulence

4) The safest travel.

All of these are decided and directed by ground control.

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