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Why don’t planes simply fly in a straight line across the Pacific Ocean? 🌎✈️ The answer may surprise you.
In this episode, we uncover the real science behind airplane flight paths across the Pacific and explain why routes on a map can look dramatically longer or curved instead of following a straight line. From Earth’s curvature and great-circle routes to jet streams, weather conditions, air traffic, fuel efficiency, safety, and available airports, discover why airlines carefully choose the routes your flight takes.
Is it really a longer route—or does the map make it look that way?
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