Why Do Flights Take Longer Routes Instead Of Straight Lines?

Airlines routinely adjust routes to take advantage of favourable winds, even if that means flying a path that looks longer.
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Yes, Planes Do Fly Over The Pacific Ocean - Here's Why Their Flight Paths Look So Distorted

The Pacific is the largest and the deepest ocean on our planet, stretching over 60 million square miles; that's close to 30% of Earth's entire surface area. The ocean connects the continents of North ...
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Turbulence is getting worse. Here are the planet’s bumpiest flight routes

When the plane started shaking violently on a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam in July, some passengers thought it was going to crash. The jet had hit severe turbulence, flinging people ...
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New flight paths proposed to update decades-old Scottish airspace map

Scotland’s largest airports could see a major revamp of their airspace under new flight path proposals. Edinburgh airport, Glasgow airport and the UK’s National Air Traffic Services (Nats) have ...
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New Mar-a-Lago flight paths affect four times more people: airport

New flight paths around President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club affect four times more people than the previous routes. The FAA issued temporary flight restrictions over Mar-a-Lago through October ...