Flight Paths

to dalaman 4.3 hours antayla 5 hours

You would fly above the seashore of the Eastern Seaboard, flying over New York, New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

Most long distance flights try to keep close to a Great Circle route (to save fuel). Stretch a string or thread tightly on the surface of a globe and have it go through London and NYC and you have a great circle route. the path goes pretty fr north and follows the Canadian and New England coast before arriving at JFK.

A flight from San Francisco to London will typically fly northwards towards Canada and Hudson Bay, then it will turn west over the tip of Greenland, pass just south of Iceland. The flight will then enter UK airspace passing the southwest tip of Scotland, the Isle of Man and then in over Liverpool, then the flight will head towards Birmingham, England before descending into London.

A flight from the UK to Cuba will generally fly west towards Ireland, then over the Atlantic to Cuba or if it were flying from London to Cuba, it would fly along the south coast of England towards Devon and Cornwall and then directly over the Atlantic towards Cuba.

A flight from London to Athens will firstly fly over Kent, UK before crossing the English Channel. After the flight flies across the Channel the flight will fly over Belgium (passing over Brussels), then over southern Germany (south of Frankfurt), then over Austria and then over the coast of Croatia and much of the former countries of Yugoslavia. The plane will spend some time crossing the Mediterranean sea before descending into Athens.

A random search for flights from Manchester (MAN) to Hurghada (HRG) shows:

OPTION 1: 10hr 15min via Frankfurt (FRA) & Cairo (CAI)

MAN - FRA BMI British Midland Airways Flt 3357 Dep 06:35pm 30Jul,Fri

Operated by Lufthansa

FRA - CAI Egyptair Flt 9002 Dep 10:55pm 30Jul,Fri

Operated by Lufthansa

CAI - HRG Egyptair Flt 42 Dep 05:50am 31Jul,Sat

Flight Duration: 6hr 40min; Layover Time: 3hr 35min; Total Trip Time: 10hr 15min

A flight from Birmingham, UK to Paris, France would fly over Warwickshire then Oxford, then past London, the South Downs and Hastings, Kent. It would then cross the English channel and over northern France into Paris.

OPTION 1 07hr 35min MAN - AMS KLM Airlines Flt 1072 06:00am 28Feb,Sat

AMS - AYT Sun Express Flt 0103 10:50am 28Feb,Sat

Flight Duration:5hr 20min; Layover Time: 2hr 15min

Total Trip Time: 7hr 35min OPTION 2 08hr 35min

MAN - IST Turkish Airlines Flt 1994 11:30am 28Feb,Sat

IST - AYT Turkish Airlines Flt 0424 07:10pm 28Feb,Sat

Flight Duration:6hr 55min; Layover Time: 1hr 40min

Total Trip Time: 8hr 35min

From Vancouver, the aircraft will take a NW heading after leaving Vancouver centre control and will continue NW and cross the International day line near between Alaska and Russia beening in contact with Anchorage centre and Transoceanic centre air control, after crossing the day line, the aircraft will take a SW heading pass Japan, in contact with Narita Radar and Kyoto Radar, then down pass the east coast of China ( dont know what radar) and thru the Taiwan Strait where the aircraft will contact Taipei Radar. and finally Hong Kong, usually the aircraft descends into Hong Kong with the STAR of A1 Elato Arrival.

This is an approximate direct (straight line) distance. During actual travel, this distance may change if a different flight route is chosen.

The distance between the two places in miles is:9947

A flight from LHR to DFW will typically head west towards Bristol and South Wales, then over the Irish Sea and Southern Ireland, the flight will then fly northwest over the Atlantic Ocean (towards Greenland) and then southwest over the Eastern U.S. towards Dallas.

• Because of the curvature of the earth this is the shortest distance to fly. You have to remember the world is not flat as it is on a map. Best look at a globe of the world to understand this.

A flight from London to Greece will firstly fly East over Kent and the Medway towns in England, then the plane will cross the English Channel and fly over Belgium, passing directly over Brussels. Then the plane will fly over southern Germany, passing close to Frankfurt, then the flight will torn southeast crossing the Alpine region of Austria, then the flight will fly over Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania before descending into Greece.

A flight from Chicago, Illinois to Frankfurt, Germany typically has 1 layover. The flight either has a layover in Detroit or Atlanta and then is nonstop from there to Frankfurt.

8hr 25min Muscat (MCT) to London Heathrow (LHR) by a nonstop flight operated by Oman Air.

"The flight follows the Siberian route, which maximum latitude is 61° North ..."

LFPG PARIS CHARLES DE GAULLE

NURMO

PERON

CMB

VEKIN

ADUTO

FERDI

HELEN

KEKIX

AGISU

KUGAL

VES

INTET

RADIS

GOTEX

LOBBI

BAK

DEGAV

LABAN

DETSO

PELIT

TORVA

ARS

ELTOK

RESNA

SIPRI

VEVIG

BAKLA

PILEL

GATRI

GIMET

UNAKI

ODIMA

LURAM

ARBUK

BEMUR

RINOV

KUDEP

ABGAR

ULKAM

LEPES

AGOMI

MONAG

MISOR

BI

NOR

BEKAL

MOLAG

SAKUR

ODITA

SURIN

RULAT

KEDUK

NIRBA

VANAK

SONOL

PITIL

RUBIR

ARDIB

ARELI

RIDLO

MOKET

DOMON

LAPNI

URIMA

IVADA

HAB

OTMIR

AGUNI

LUTEL

RUSOT

KURIN

OLMIS

ASMER

IGROD

HOKKE

KADBO

TAVIS

CAYAH

BASIN

GTC

AGANO

MIKRA

GOC

MILKY

SWAMP

COMET

Then down in to TOKYO.

A random search for flights TLV to WAW on 05 Jun, Fri shows:

Nonstop

04hr 00min El Al Israel Airlines Flt 563 Dep 05:55am Nonstop (Economy US$590 + Taxes US$54)

05hr 10min LOT Polish Airlines Flt 154 Dep 06:00am Nonstop (Economy US$545 +Taxes US$96) 1 Stop

07hr 55min (Economy US$ 383 + Taxes US$95)

TLV - KBP AeroSvit Airlines Flt 0238 Dep 08:15am

KBP - WAW Aerosvit Airlines Flt 4752 Dep 02:35pm

Flight Duration: 4hr 50min; Layover Time: 3hr 5min; Total Trip Time: 7hr 55min 07hr 00min (Economy US$419 + Taxes US$107)

TLV - OTP TAROM Romanian Air Transport Flt 0156 Dep 09:25am

OTP - WAW TAROM Romanian Air Transport Flt 9221 Dep 02:35pm

Flight Duration: 4hr 35min; Layover Time: 2hr 25min; Total Trip Time: 7hr 00min

Westbound towards South Wales and Ireland then directly over the Atlantic to Mexico.

North through California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana (US), north through Alberta/Saskatchewan, Nunavut (Canada), north above Arctic Ocean (just north of Greenland and just south of the North Pole), north above Spitsbergen (a Norwegian island), south over Barents Sea, south through Russia, south through Kazakhstan, south over eastern section of Caspian Sea, south through Iran, south over Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, and into Dubai, located on southeastern tip of Arabian Peninsula.

Continually over the north of the US near the border.

You fly toward the North Pole and continue to Beijing. Here is the visual:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Toronto+to+Beijing