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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there's flight level separation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level#Semicircular/hemispheric_rule … / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_vertical_separation_minima … - eastbound (0-179 deg) goes on odd-numbers-of-thousands of feet, west (180-359 deg) on even.
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SLOP is more about allowing aircraft to pass each other in the same direction AIUI, because everyone wants to be flying their efficient cruise speed and that can mean you'd catch a slower cruising a/c up and have to take evasive action.
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