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Old Jan 5, 2015 | 5:41 pm
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harryhood
 
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Probably has to do with jet stream and other winds aloft. When they are strong and in the right places, east coast trips to Asia can often shift on a slightly eastwards polar track to avoid as much of the winds as possible and thereby mitigate the fuel and flight time drag caused by plowing into headwinds.

This is normally not the case from the west coast as the distance is much shorter and going east would make no sense.
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