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Old Jun 11, 2009 | 10:08 pm
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Originally Posted by PresRDC
An upcoming HKG-SFO flight lists the block time as being 11 hours and 50 minutes. This seems awfully short to me, considering the 6900 mile distance and, even though it is an eastbound flight, other similar distance flights that I've taken (NRT-JFK for example) have block times of at least another hour.

Is this really the correct block time for the flight or did someone leave off an extra hour (maybe got the time zones wrong)?
Thanks!
This would seem to be a correct flight time.

I did HKG-LAX on CX in 10hrs 47 mins.

Very very strong tail winds going eastbound at certain times.

I think you'll find the return flight is blocked much much longer 9by several hours in fact).

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