Originally Posted by
ContinentalFan
UA2 and UA28 got to race back too. SQ32 joined the race an hour later and won!! Are those A350s so much faster or is there something else going on?
How fun.
I think the airplanes have the same cruise speed, but in this case it looks like UA2 had a rather long taxi time (just over an hour), while SQ32 was fairly quick to take off (about 25 minutes after gate departure, and only 8 minutes after UA2), so in the air they only had to make up a tiny bit of time to beat you.