In the early 2000s, I have flown to destinations in eastern Europe quite a bit, including St. Petersburg (Russia), Odessa and Simferopol (Ukraine), Chisinau (Moldova) and the Baltic States (at the time, they were not part of the EU and Schengen). I have to say I always enjoyed flying to these places. However, at the end of 2003, I was fed up. Fed up trying to obtain overflight permits, fed up...