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Weather issues. Sometimes, the Pacific Ocean isn't very pacific.

Wrong. And not a sphere. Think greed is not a factor over safety as you say, since when? They fly up to Alaska because that’s the layout of the earth on way to Japan.

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Get a globe and some string, stretching it from, say, LAX to Japan. Notice that the shortest (least fuel used) is a path going north from LAX. So, to answer the statement in the title - it's cost.

The 3 Golden Rules: 1. Pick a great airline. 2. Fly over land as much as possible. 3. Break up your trip.

In 1987, my wife and I flew back from Germany on Delta Airlines. Our flight from Atlanta to Kansas City was delayed because of the weather. After a couple of hours, an ancient pilot strolled through the boarding area and announced, "I'm going to Kansas City. Is anybody going with me?" When we landed, it was literally in a blizzard. I couldn't even see the ground until seconds before touching down. The weather was so bad that we couldn't make the trip from KC to Lawrence, opting instead for a hotel room. I was in awe of the pilot that landed in weather we dared not drive in. Mind you, this was in the days before GPS and auto land.

Absolute crap. When I retired after 50 years as an aircraft engineer working in the airline industry, only one a/c used a fluid for deicing. The Douglas DC-3 designed in the 1930's. For props only. Most passenger a/c today use engine bleed air for anti-ice protection. I am not licenced to quote on the B787, but I believe it uses electric anti-ice. All modern prop a/c use electrically heated cuffs on the blade roots. Windshields are also electrically heated. A brilliant feature of the Rolls Royce RB211 that powered some variants of Boeings's 747 was a small rubber tip on the intake spinner. If ice tried to form, it would cause the tip to vibrate and shed the ice. Please do your research from qualified and proven sites.

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Planes crisscross the Pacific daily from and to the US west coast as well as from and to South America. Latham (Chilean airline) fly daily from and to Santiago to and from Auckland. More and more aircrafts fly entirely above water for the US west coast to the far-east, S.E Asia and Oceania. Since sanctions have been applied to Russia in February 2022 American, Canadian and European registered aircrafts are not allowed to fly over the Russian federation airspace.

They have not seen Radar 24 or Flightaware. Many flights do cross the Pacific. Newer types of aircraft can make it across. Sure it's a shorter route, the great circle. But to stay out of bad weather, flying longer with newer fuel efficient engines have no problems. ETOPS Back in the day, you fly near the coast because of fuel. Strong head winds and storms across the North Pacific. Burning more fuel. With Newer eco engines, you can cross the Pacific.

are there alternative routes when flying from LAX to HNL? perhaps a slightly longer router over land 90% of the time?

And takes more than twenty-four hours to fly from South America to Africa

A big problem are hostile nations! A common flight path swings very close to The Russia, China, and N. Korea. Also war zones.

It’s because if they crash then the crash will be closer to land instead of in the middle of the ocean. They’d be easier to find if their last known position was a land based reading on the radar.

what a bunch of B.S. just grab a globe and a string and look.

Could have been done in ONE minute

This video is about as convoluted as FJB telling the world about his plans to build a railroad across the Indian Ocean.

From reading the comments, I can see that nobody learned anything here. What a joke!

The Great Circle route from East Texas to Southeast Asian cities is almost all over land. US, Canada, Alaska, Siberia, China...

I'm starting to think "Wal-Mart Captain Picard" doesn't know what the hell he's talking about!

I think they show the Pacific Ocean much smaller on maps than it actually is. Pacific ocean (and flights that have disappeared) prove there are no satellites but only radio transmitters which use the ionosphere to bounce the signal and cables for longer distances like under the Atlantic.

"picture the earth as a giant sphere..." hmmmmm - okay that's a stretch but I'll try - sphere is round, right?

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Is this yet another AI video? jesus god help us all

I live in Sydney and have travelled to the United States on business and vacation, and guess what, we always fly over the pacific.

Close to land if major problem with aircraft. The distance closer to the poles is shorter. The earth is a little more oval than round. Closer to the equator distance is further.

Maybe the better question, is why make such an idiotic statement in the first place. PAL flies from Manila to LAX over the Pacific for the lion's share of its route. EVA Air flies over the Pacific to Taiwan. Certainly those two aren't the only ones, just the ones I am familiar with.

Well, when ya look at the flat earth map, you can easily see why they fly the "great circle" routes lamont.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cu_crop/public/cu_ldeo_news_import/67172/Flat_earth-637x478.png

Mel-syd-BNE to USA ALL fly over the pacific within minutes of taking off …… and until seconds before they land . What nonsense !

Follow the Earth's curvature, that's good advice, I'm going to give it a go. Wait, does that curvature come from the turtle that the earth stands on. No wonder I've always felt at one with the ocean. I hope when I die I find out it's turtles all the way down. If it's not, I'm gonna be pretty disappointed. It's all on you bro. Please, remember the old adage, with 450 subscribers comes no responsibility.

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So why did I fly over the Pacific not once, but twice?

Goes to show that the world is actually flat

ETOPS and earth curvature. If the plane has an emergency there's no appropriate airstrip for most of the straight line route, even if it was shorter.

Agree with the last two, YOU ARE TALKING A LOAD OF BULL trying to make cash ??? You should stop abusing yourself and quit this !!!

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No thumbs up (or down) Said the same thing many times.

The flight from Rio de Janeiro to Cape Town is entirely above the Atlantic.

You just barely gloss over the real reason, the earth is round and it's a shorter distance.

So much BS in this video. "Isolation and human factors" ? where the hell did you dream that up from? Flying great circle routes usually means greater fuel and time savings but this is not always the case, particularly over the Pacific Ocean. For example, the great circle routs from LAX to SIN would go northwest initially up towards Alaska and then southwest towards Japan then on to SIN. However, prevailing wind patterns mean that a route more westerly from LAX, passing north of Hawaii, south of Midway, north of Gaum and on to Jomalik in the Philippines then on to SIN although about 600 NM further is much faster because tailwinds are present for all but the final couple of hours of the flight. Flying the opposite route, SIN to LAX flights often take advantage of the North Paciific Jetstream leaving the great circle route around Tokyo and flying east. I have flown both of these routes many times.

What kind of rubbish are you flogging? "A sense of isolation flying over water"? Do something else with your enormous talents because it's wasted here.

Flights to Honolulu from Adia is always rough ride.

Would be a better video if the photos coincided with the story.

"By following the Earth's curvature they can minimize the distance flown." They have NO CHOICE but to follow the Earth's curvature! A flight from New York to Boston follows the Earth's curvature. ALL flights follow the Earth's curvature. Is this video aimed at Flat Earthers? So many technical errors in this video.

good video.. hallo from italy

Argued from a flat-earther mindset.

Ironically, this video is just as guilty as the fake newspaper is that originally posted this mythical story

It was explained to me this way: When you take a long flight, say from LAX to London, you fly to where London will be when you get there.

Load of BS The Earth is Flat. Stop lying

Not believable in the slightest.