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Routes that arc past 60° north: a detour on a flat map, the shortest way on a globe.
8Routes
6Airports
~14h 35mLongest
67°NFurthest north
Every route in this group
Popular routes, A to Z →4 city pairs
Longest first. Each direction is its own page: going out and coming back, the sun lands on different sides.
Tokyo ⇄ New York City~12h 30m · 10,903 km
Also in: Over the date line · Twelve hours plus
Paris ⇄ Los Angeles~12h 15m · 9,103 km
Also in: Twelve hours plus · Across the Atlantic
Los Angeles ⇄ London~10h 10m · 8,760 km
Also in: Across the Atlantic
London ⇄ San Francisco~11h 35m · 8,616 km
Also in: Across the Atlantic
More kinds of flight
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Across the equator 32You take off in one hemisphere's season and land in the other's.
Twelve hours plus 16Half a day in the air. Does one window win the whole way?
Across the Atlantic 46The most common crossing on the list. Eastbound and westbound are not mirror images.
Cross-country 8End to end across the United States.