Easier to use a train![]()
Oh, indeed. But the op wanted planes.
Easier to use a train![]()
Oh, indeed. But the op wanted planes.
...maths...
So flying them all out would perhaps take every plane the soviets had that was cleared for international flight, full time for rwo years,maybe?
Hmmm... theoretically doable, especially if they can get some of the planes flying their domestic routes certified for international flights.
Very, very expensive, both in roubles and impact on the economy.
Well, lets see. Suppose they are using a dc8 sized plane that carries 200 passengers. Suppose the plane can fly one round trip per day, on average.
Thats 13,220 trip days, so 50 planes would be flying nonstop for 264.4 days most of a year.
Edit.
Aeroflot had a grand total of some 43 or so international routes/frequencies in 1973 (data i found was for winter 73/74). The planes used were labelled as il6, il8, tu3 and tu5 mostly.
tu3 seems to be the tupelov 134, a dc9 sized plane that only hols 70-80 pssengers. Not sure what the others are.
So flying them all out would perhaps take every plane the soviets had that was cleared for international flight, full time for rwo years,maybe?
Hmmm... theoretically doable, especially if they can get some of the planes flying their domestic routes certified for international flights.
Very, very expensive, both in roubles and impact on the economy.
Or, rather than emergency nonstop flights, Soviet Jews could simply buy plane tickets after getting their passports and get to Tel Aviv on a commercial flight.
2.6 million plane tickets on commercial flights is a LOT of money, especially back then. Wheres it coming from?
Besides, the op wants all the jews going direct to israel to dump the burden on the state of israel. Going by way of heathrow, schipol, frankfurt and orly isnt going to do that.