# Explore

Popular flights, grouped by the path they fly. Each route has its own page, where your date and time decide the side.

## By kind of flight

- [Over the date line](/explore/routes/over-the-date-line) — Somewhere over the Pacific, the calendar skips a day or repeats one. 16 routes.
- [Over the top](/explore/routes/over-the-top) — Routes that arc past 60° north: a detour on a flat map, the shortest way on a globe. 8 routes.
- [Across the equator](/explore/routes/across-the-equator) — You take off in one hemisphere's season and land in the other's. 32 routes.
- [Twelve hours plus](/explore/routes/twelve-hours-plus) — Half a day in the air. Does one window win the whole way? 16 routes.
- [Across the Atlantic](/explore/routes/across-the-atlantic) — The most common crossing on the list. Eastbound and westbound are not mirror images. 46 routes.
- [Cross-country](/explore/routes/cross-country) — End to end across the United States. 8 routes.
- [Within Europe](/explore/routes/within-europe) — Short, busy and mostly east–west. 44 routes.
- [Two hours or less](/explore/routes/two-hours-or-less) — So short the sun barely moves: when you leave decides your side. 122 routes.
- [The long way round](/explore/routes/the-long-way-round) — Flights that detour around closed airspace, and how much longer that makes them. 22 routes.

- [Popular routes, A to Z](/explore/popular) — 338 popular routes, by departure city.