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Slightly over 4 hours.
Fly Over States was created on 2012-02-06.
If you were to fly due south from Chicago, Illinois, the first South American city you would fly over would likely be Belize City, Belize. It would take roughly five hours to fly over Belize from Chicago.
If you flew due south from Chicago you would not fly over a South American country. Instead, the plane would fly over the Pacific Ocean.
It takes 16 hours to fly from Phoenix to Istanbul.
California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado are the states that you would fly over.
A flight from AMS to LAX will firstly fly over the North Sea, then it will fly over central England, the Irish Sea (passing close to the Isle of Man), then over Northern Ireland and then northeast towards Iceland and Greenland. From there the plane will come in over northeastern Canada, the northern US states and the midwestern and southwestern US states before descending into LAX.
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American Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines fly direct between Phoenix and Honolulu.
Delta, British Airways, US Airways, and United airlines all fly from Phoenix to various cities in Germany. Air France and Lufthansa also fly out of Phoenix to Germany.
Pilots will usually fly over the Pacific Ocean.