Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I am a fan of flying on airplanes in real life, as well as flying airplanes in simulators.
I flew on the British Airways flight "BA0008" from Tokyo to London. Left Haneda Airport on January 19 (2024) and landed on Heathrow Airport on January 19.
I was quite excited to fly for the first time over North America and/or the Arctic Ocean as I had noticed this flight's route had been taking eastbound, with tipical paths over the Pacific Ocean, Alaska, Northern Canada, Greenland etc.
However, the flight on January 19 was an exception and flew westbound, over Asia, East Europe etc. I also checked online flight trackers and indeed BA0008 had flewn eastbound for many days before and after January 19 😅
Does anyone have any idea why this happened or how can I research or where else I could ask about this (other than just Googleing)?