2020年2月25日 · Flying around the smaller circumference of the Earth is called the “Great Circle Route” and also very noticeable for flights from the U.S. to Asia that will fly far above Alaska and Siberia...

2019年7月5日 · The origin and destination are fixed to the earth, if the sea and the air were likewise fixed, a great circle would yield the shortest path. A longer path with regard to the earth can yield flight path savings in the order of 30% to 50%, the classic example being North Atlantic flights in the forties, where savings of this order resulted from ...

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2025年2月14日 · This is due to geodesics, the natural shortest routes on a curved surface like Earth. Pilots and flight planners use this principle to save time, fuel, and costs, making air travel more efficient. The next time you see a flight path curving over the Arctic or stretching in an unexpected way, remember—it’s actually the fastest way to get there!

2015年5月5日 · We’re often asked why an individual flight is flying a particular route, or put another way—“why did we fly over Greenland?”. Long distance flight paths are designed to be the most efficient way to get from point A to point B on the other side of the world.

Some of the flights usually brought up by flat-Earthers are: Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, diverted to Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Qatar Airways, from Chicago to Doha, diverted to Moscow. Emirates, from San Francisco to Dubai, diverted to Moscow. Lufthansa, from Shanghai to Munich, diverted to Moscow.

2023年3月1日 · Have you ever wondered why flight paths on flyers and maps appear curved? Although this may be debated by a minority, the reason is pretty straightforward - the earth is not flat.

2022年9月2日 · This map from Adam Symington uses historical data from OpenFlights to visualize the world’s flight paths. The graphic shows a comprehensive data set encompassing 67,663 different routes that connect 10,000 different airports across the globe.

Shortest flight path – great circle routes. Choosing the shortest flight route is important to save both time and fuel. Here you can learn all about how great circle navigation helps the aviation industry to optimize its paths and why the shortest routes are usually displayed as an arc in a …

flightpaths.com lets you see the actual flight paths on your flight route. Free to use. Routes with new flight recording data. Click on a route to show more details. Flights with significant detours around certain areas compared to the shortest distance possible. Longest recorded passenger flights in our system. Calculated with flight data.