Like, I guess there are "oceanic tracks" crossing the North Atlantic? But they're bidirectional? There isn't a separate westbound and eastbound track for each route??
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Apparently there's this relatively new thing in aviation which in road vehicle terms is equivalent to "hey maybe we can reduce the risk of head-on collisions if we don't all drive straight into each other along the central reservation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lateral_offset_procedure …
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So basically, this wasn't a problem before because navigation tech wasn't good enough to get planes lined up for collisions in the first place?
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