Absolutely, I’ve tried to point that out to some folks, but they’re psychologically committed to blaming the airline for the actions of Putin’s thugs. It’s shameless sophistry, and it reminds me of when I used to have to argue with Marxist during my University days. The Soviets never did anything wrong in the Left’s views. Now, we’ve people (alleged conservatives) who think sixteen-year former KGB Colonel Putin and his thugs are being wronged by Ukrainians and civil airplanes that won’t stay out of their way.
Nobody’s blaming the airline, despite the fact it has a terrible history as we all know. Rather questioning why have flight paths going through a known and active war zone where firing missiles and taking out aerial craft has been continuous for weeks....and that’s a reasonable question.