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.
