Originally Posted by
DKNYSprt95
And... Routing was kind of intriguing. Land was always within stone's throw from the plane. Took off at LAX, hugged the coast, right over SFO, Oregon, wa, over YVR, Anchorage, parts of soviet union, flew towards north korea(the funny part, veered south right before dprk), then between south korea/japan, right over TPE, and into HKG.
that's a more northern routing than my NRT-DTW flight on monday -- we flew across the pacific from narita, barely reached the aleutians, then crossed the USA coast at seattle, continuing east to detroit. we had a steady 100+ mph tailwind across the pacific. we crossed seattle about 7.5 hours out of narita.
winds were crazy last week on a NRT-HKG roundtrip, as well -- the CX airshow indicated headwinds in excess of 200mph for the first hour and a half of the outbound flight, and in-flight time NRT-HKG was 5 hours, 25 minutes. at times, our ground speed was in the 300's MPH. the return was 3 hours, 25 minutes.