Timeline for Why is the flight time of London-Beijing and Tel Aviv-Beijing the same?
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| Apr 11, 2017 at 13:31 | comment | added | Mico | I think what's missing here is a discussion of actual-route distances between the city pairs, as opposed to the distances along the great-circle routes. As @Kris notes in his answer, the difference between the actual-route distances is much smaller than is the difference between the great-circle distances. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 13:21 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | I suppose it could be the case that airliners from LHR–PEK routinely have a faster groundspeed than those from TLV–PEK due to the effects of the jet stream at higher latitudes. But claiming that it only takes an airliner an extra 50 minutes to cover an extra 1000 km requires a bit more justification and/or qualification. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 13:16 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | I'm not so sure that I'd say there's "no contradiction", unless you're implying that the airliners routinely cover that extra distance at an average speed of (1000 km)/(50 minutes) = 1200 km/h ≈ Mach 1.1 at airliner cruising altitude. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 11:24 | history | answered | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |