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Iceland-Bound Jet for Edward Snowden 'Could Take Off Tomorrow' (usnews.com)
22 points by stfu on June 21, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I'm assuming that the chartered yet ($240,000, yikes!) is necessary because there are no direct flights between Hong Kong and Iceland?

I mean, he still has to pass through Hong Kong passport control and everything on the way out, if he's doing this "legally" -- if they're publicly announcing something like this, then I assume the plan is not to smuggle him out.


Yeah, there are no direct flights.

I guess the high cost comes from requiring a rather large corporate jet with the needed range of 6000+ miles:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HKG-KEF

http://www.avchart.com/users/quotes/passenger-request.asp?ch...




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