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The planet is rotating "to the right" when viewed from outer space with the north pole at the top. It is rotating to the east.
To fly towards a destination in the east, your destination is always moving away from you.
To fly towards a destination in the west, your destination is always moving towards you.
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An even greater influence is the constant high-speed winds high in the atmosphere, known as the "jet stream". The prevailing direction of the jet stream is west-to-east. Commercial jet airliners flying east intentionally enter the jet stream whenever possible, and get a lot of help from it, decreasing the time required to cover an eastbound distance. When flying west, however, the jet stream can't help because it's flowing the wrong way; and if Air Traffic Control places your westbound flight at an altitude where you're in the jet stream, then you're flying against it, and it increases the time required for you to get anywhere.
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The first answer is simply wrong -- it looks sensible but so did the idea that heavier objects fall faster than light ones until Galileo did the experiment that disproved that. Here's one that would disprove the "direction of rotation" theory: Imagine a large north-polar projection map of the Earth on a flat plate resting on a turntable that turns slowly (say 1 rpm) in a counterclockwise direction (as the earth itself does from that angle), and give it a raised edge so that things moving around on top of the map won't fall off the edge. Place a small wind-up car alongside the turntable fence going in an eastward direction and measure how long it takes to go around the circle -- first clockwise (against the rotation) and then what the Brits call anticlockwise (with the rotation). Of course, those opposite-direction times will be the same, because there is no jet-stream effect.
Other evidence of the error is provided by the fact that differences in east-west and west-east travel times only appear for airplanes affected by the jet stream. They do not appear in automobile or railroad timetables, nor do they appear in flying times for low-flying planes. Artificial satellites would also be exempt, except that they always travel in an eastward direction, having taken advantage of the earth's speed of rotation in that direction (1000 mph at the equator) before they are launched.
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What else can I help you with?
How many hours to fly 3956 miles?
How fast are you flying? If you are flying 100mph it will take 39.56 hours. Are you flying east or west. If you are flying east you will be flying back in time.
What is better from NYC to Hong Kong flying east or flying west?
Flying east towards Hong Kong and west to NYC.
Does it take longer to fly to a country than the journey back?
It can take longer to fly to a country than it does on the way back, but it is dependent on winds and travel conditions.It can sometimes take longer to fly to a country than the journey back because of the wind. It is a well known fact that when flying East you are travelling against the wind and when flying West you are going with the wind.
Which way is faster flying either west-to-east or east-to-west you a hot air balloon flying across the continental US?
As earth is moving east to west we should move west to east to faster to our destination.
Why does it take longer to fly nonstop from San Francisco to New York than the return trip?
Usually when you fly from New York to San Francisco the flight takes longer in elapsed time than the trip from San Francisco to New York. Flying from east to west in the Northern Hemisphere usually means flying into the wind, while flying west to east gives a tail wind. Also, the trip flying west may seem shorter because of the three-hour difference between the two locations: 4:44 New York (Eastern) = 1:44 San Francisco (Pacific)
Why does it take longer to fly from London to Miami than Miami to London?
It mostly depends on the weather and the wind speed/direction
How many hours does it take to fly from Seattle wa to Frankfurt Germany?
Flying west -east about 13 hours
Why is the flight from lax to New York City less than New York City to lax?
When you fly from LAX to NYC, you are traveling from west to east. The winds in the sky always breeze from west to east, so whenever you take a plane in this direction, it will be pushed along by these wind currents. Imaginably, when one travels from east to west, it takes longer (because you are flying against the currents).
What is a country that is longer north to south that it is east to west?
Chile is a country that is longer north to south than it is east to west.
What are the contributing factors to the fact that the time to fly from Adelaide to Melbourne is less than the time to fly from Melbourne to Adelaide?
I believe it has something to do with the general wind direction. It tends, as far as I know, to progress from west to east, so when a plane is flying west (to Melbourne), the plane is flying against the wind, and will take longer. When the plane is flying east (i.e. from Adelaide to Melbourne), it is flying with the wind and thus doesn't take as long. The same thing occurs flying from Melbourne to New Zealand - it takes less time to reach New Zealand than it does to return - the difference being roughly an hour.
Why does the flight to the US from Europe take longer than the return flight?
Part of it is due to the jet stream, which is a high level moving part of air travelling eastwards across the Atlantic. High flying aircraft can take advantage of it to help speed up their journeys.
If you were to fly from Atlanta Georgia to Missouri in which direction would you be flying?
you would be flying east No, you would be flying north west
