Well, not really.

I noticed the other day we were doing a ground speed of 763mph over the Pacific. Since the speed of sound at sea level is 761mph, I figure that made us supersonic . OK,,,, so I presume in actuality there was a very favorable tailwind. I wonder if the pilot was having some fun and maybe pushing it just a little too since I watched the speed gradually increase over a period of time until the ground speed peaked out exactly 2mph above the speed of sound at sea level. Y’all suppose a pilot would crank up the speed just a little more than normal just to be able to say he had a supersonic ground speed. To bad it was not a 747. I bet they were easily making 800mph.

Alas we tracked pretty far from a great circle route and were almost all the way down to 30° N latitude much of the way between TPE and LAX which is wayyyy off the shortest route. Distance traveled came out almost 500 miles more than the number of FF base miles I will receive for the flight so I guess we traveled pretty far to catch that jet stream. And in the end we landed early at LAX, didn’t have an open gate because the plane at our gate hadn’t left yet, had to wait 20 minutes before finally taxiing to a remote pier and being bussed about two miles back to immigration. Did you know they can fit the entire contents of a fully loaded 777-300ER into only two buses? Well apparently they can.