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Old Aug 17, 2020, 11:02 am
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Originally Posted by Reply1984
It is about jet stream. Airlines can save fuel with the help of it, or sometimes they have to find an optimum route to avoid it. Sometimes JFK-HKG flights will fly to the east right after take-off and cross the Atlantic and the Europe.
I had a HKG YYZ flight which hit land around YVR, landed almost one hour ahead.
Pilot friends say you set the plane into the jet stream and it gets blown to your destination.
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