Why Planes Don't Fly Over the Pacific Ocean
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- Why do airlines avoid the Pacific Ocean? You might think it was a safety issue. The Pacific is the largest and deepest of the world’s oceans. If a plane encounters a problem over a seemingly endless and bottomless pond of water, the pilots are going to have a rough time finding a safe spot to set her down.
Guessing that it is a safety precaution wouldn't be entirely wrong. When planning a route, many pilots prefer to maximize the number of airports along their path. Emergencies are incredibly rare relative to how many planes take to the skies every day. That said, it isn’t the main reason airlines tend to avoid making a straight shot east to west...
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#planes #aviation #brightside
SUMMARY:
- When planning a route, many pilots prefer to maximize the number of airports along their path.
- Excluding special circumstances such as passing through the jet streams or other meteorological concerns, the fastest route is almost always the one closest to a straight line.
- On a 2D map, making a giant rainbow to avoid the Pacific Ocean looks like a much longer route. But since the Earth is a sphere, a straight line is going to look very different in three-dimensional spaces.
- The combination of the two factors, the curvature of the Earth and its extra equatorial width, mean that curving toward the poles is a shorter distance than flying (what seems like on a map) “straight” across!
- Another reason planes will sometimes brave an oceanic voyage is to take advantage of the smoother ride. Even in clear weather, there’s much less turbulence over water than over land.
- The other primary consideration for determining flight paths are air currents, namely the jet streams. These high-altitude air currents exist near the top of the troposphere.
- There are 4 main jet streams, 2 in each hemisphere, and thanks to the Earth’s rotation, they mostly flow west to east.
- Flying with a jet stream can shave several hours off of a trip, but flying into it can slow the plane down considerably.
- It’s also worth noting the risks associated with jet streams. The biggest hazard is a kind of turbulence known as clear-air turbulence, which occurs along the edges of the streams.
- The jet stream mostly affects things tens of thousands of feet in the air, and the curvature of the Earth doesn’t really matter unless you’re traveling hundreds of miles per hour over vast distances.
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When was the last time you were on a plane? Where did you go?
A year ago I went to Jamaica on a plane
7 years ago, i ride a plane to Singapore to visit my cousins.
I went over the pacific ocean. You're a liar.
BRIGHT SIDE I go on planes probably about twice a year to Czech Republic and I’m going to Adelaide in south Australia (I live in Australia) but if you catch a flight from Brisbane to Los Angeles, you’ll definitely go across the Pacific Ocean
Tokyo
This video could also be titled “How to turn 30 seconds of information into a 9 1/2 minute video.”
Correction: "how to turn a 30 second lie into a 9 1/2 minute video", as planes do fly over the Pacific. Which took me only needing to look at one flight tracking webpage to prove.
You mean..."...30 seconds of MISINFORMATION into a 9 1/2 minute ridiculous rant..." But hey, we clicked on it, so he got his penny...lazy people will do ANYTHING to avoid working for a living...
i came here for this comment
And make the viewers feel like a child
Jokes on you... this video is actually being live streamed as it’s never actually been completed.
Quick answer: can't land in emergencies, and the spherical shape of the earth makes it more efficient to go across alaska
Thanks
You mean the flat shape?
Young Bakugo bro leave
@@VGNAL i'm just bullshitting lol
It's more efficient because it's shorter.
I have flown many times from Vancouver bc to Sydney Australia. 14 hours of nothing but ocean , it’s amazing and scary
I flew from Sydney to LA it's crazy how big the ocean is
@@AlecPorter-nj9xl
Recall an interview with Graham Chapman recalling a tour with Monty Python. As they flew west over the Great Lakes, Terry Gilliam, as he looked down, remarked,
Look at that! A whole bunch of water!
So imagine...
Definitely want to fall asleep during that trip!
@@zlcoolboy I used to LOVE when there was no wifi. You could kick back and watch movies. No one could reach you
I flew LAX to Tokyo non-stop. 11 1/2 hours in a luxurious 747 wide body in 1986. I remember them bringing hot towels out for everyone to freshen up during the flight.
"It's easy to forget that an airline is a business." You're right. I always thought airline companies are charities.
😂
Lol
😂😅😂
Brightside has never been very bright
right! 😂
I’m an airline pilot and the Pacific Ocean is my highway. How did this guy get 30 million subscribers?
well you specialize keeping people in the air, while this guy specializes in videos if there was a subscription for pilots than youd probably be well known =D
As an airline pilot how often do you tip the nose to follow the curvature plus how does the plane remain level going round a ball just curious
@@bobryan535 a flat earther. Did you finish primary school yet little buddy?
@@champ8605 who said anything about the earth being flat. Why can't you answer my questions with explanations or if you are really clever explain with practical demonstrations. I am only questioning the cult that we were all born into that we are hairless monkeys living on a spinning ball with water stuck to it flying through the universe at 450,000mph. I prefer to question everything and assume nothing. You obviously accept everything that you are told to be true. Proof proof proof not theories.
@@bobryan535 they don't tilt the nose down because the earth is very massive and the jets of an aircraft are not strong enough to overcome the earth's gravity.
Also, the earth is a ball, and from mathematics we know that a circle is just an infinite amount of perpendicular lines drawn to the centre of the circle. The aircraft follows these lines and therefore is always "dipping" automatically.
“It’s easy to forget that an airline is a business.” Is it? I’m usually reminded when I pay for tickets, checked bag, in flight meals and movies.
Right? Like...oh man traveling by plane is so cheap fun and convenient...i forget im getting bent over and robbed.
I get reminded that it's a bussnius when my wallet is gone
I seem to recall being treated like cattle too, but maybe that's just on United.
I'm certain they deliberately make everything harder for people
Agreed, not a business. Are you going to eat those peanuts?
I’ve actually flown this route many times, from Osaka to Honolulu. Literally crossing the pacific. We apply a special requirement called ETOPS where we can fly along routes with the nearest airport can be 3 hours away… in our case it was midway island as en route diversion airport should there be an emergency
Aviation mech on 737 and i came here for this answer. but i guess we can let everyone else assume.
ETOPS is a certification for models of aircraft which came about when airplane manufacturers went from four to three to two engines on their aircraft. It involves certifying engine reliability and that the plane can fly for a certain numbers of minutes on one engine. Other requirements involve crew training and sometimes additional backup hydraulic and electrical systems.
To put it into layman’s terms, its the same like before you go for a long road trip with your car. Surely before heading out you service or at least check the oil, tyres and everything. And plan where are you going to stop and refuel or if repairs are needed. That’s basically the idea of ETOPS
ETOPs = Engines Turn or People Swim. 🤣🛫I have crossed the Pacific many times.
@@TheFalconJetDriver well, there were several cases when passenger aircrafts experienced shutdown of ALL engines and had to glide to land. One was the cross Canada flight where the poorly educated people didn't put enough fuel into the plane. Another also Canadian plane on a transatlantic flight when they lost fuel due to a leak and had to glide down to Azores for emergency landing. Once a 747 all 4 engines stopped working due to the plane flying into the volcanic ash cloud. Also the flight from LGA that landed on the Hudson river in NY/NJ border, but that flight only lasted a few minutes, since they didn't climbed very high before both engines were damaged by birds.
In 1976 on July 4th, yes the United States Bi Centennial. I boarded a Boeing 747 with Northwest Orient and flew from San Franciso International Airport to Honolulu Hawaii, after a one hour deboarding and restocking layover, We reboarded flew over Mid Way Island (Look it up it is in the middle of the Pacific) and Landed in Tokyo the next day July 5th! The whole Tokyo International Airport was Decorated from one side to the other with Bi Centennial decorations. I had left Hawaii on the 4th and landed in Tokyo on the 5th, my Bi Centennial was over. I was a Private First Class US Army and had gotten orders to serve with the 2d United States Infantry Division and I was assigned to Camp Hovey Korea just outside Tongducheon Korea. Was a wonderful time, before cell phones and big screen TVs. I had to write home and wait for letters. I made $282 a month and was happy to be a soldier.
*On the go?*
Here is a brief description:
- Planes don’t fly over the Pacific Ocean because planes take the polar route because it is shorter and it is much speedier! Compared to travelling across the Pacific Ocean!
- Don't forget the earth isn't flat which means if you travel in a straight line in line with the equator it is much longer!
- Moreover, you don't want an emergency landing in the middle of nowhere, so it much safer to travel near land but also avoiding airports on the way!
Hope this helped you, and enjoy your day! Love you all! If I get it wrong I am sorry I just summarised what I heard from the video! ❤️
So the earth isn't a globe after all?
doggy adores
Ridiculous. You only take the polar route when your desired destination is over the poles, and next to none are. Anchorage is stop over and fly over area for most of Asia. Get yourself Flightradar24 app and take a look. The video was correct
@@etxsports5836 came here for this, all the evidence points it is not
Jesus Christ here come the flat earthers lol
This helped cuz I’m lazy as heck
I live in Hawaii and often travel to Guam, Japan, and the US mainland and I can say without a doubt, planes DO fly over the pacific ocean without any problems.
well duh, how else are they gonna get you from Hawaii to the mainland. It is not that far from california
@@Sunshine.LeBron23 about 2500 miles. California and Maine are about the same distance from California to Hawaii.
I've flown from Auckland to LA I can assure you that you see nothing but ocean except for Hawaii.
@@johnellis5828 not that far
12/7/1941 japan didnt fly over alaska to hawaii.
Depends on which direction you’re flying and where to. Flights from Tokyo to San Francisco fly directly over the pacific for example.
Yes
When I fly to Tokyo from LA, we always go north up into Alaska and around that way. Not once did we fly over the Pacific
@@todeotodeo140it has changed since Russian invasion and sanctions made them ban their airspace
@@todeotodeo140 The entire route is over land? Wow. My guess is that you were over PARTS of the Pacific over half the time or more. Did you fly directly east over the bulk of the Pacific? No, you did not. I get that.
@@memoobaba Yeah, having Russia between Tokyo and LAX does present problems.
I flew from Melbourne (Australia) to LAX last month and back to Sydney.
I crossed the Pacific, the date line, and the equator twice in a 10 day period.
Just saying
You didn’t watch the video nematode!
You flew over WATER, you don't for a fact which ocean or sea you flew over ;)
this guy would have no issue reaching an extremely high word count if he was writing an essay
You would write boring essays... learn to add some related and interesting details like him is good
Famous quote “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter so I wrote you a long one instead.”
For those who don’t understand the implication, it’s that it takes time and effort to write in a concise and efficient matter. Why write in 10 words what you can write in 5?
@@seanhartman6496 You guys are the same people who dont read books because "they're too long"
He would go off topic though.
@@TheFinalKnight1 I don't read books because idiots wrote them! Hey, try reading a Chiltons Auto Manual. See how smart you are?
This video is me trying to fill word count for my exams.
😂
Microsoft word count at 100,000,000,000! 🤣🤣
Seeeeeeriously!!!
I did not understand a thing he is saying, must be language barrier
I surely hope you are smarter than the person who made this video.
New subscriber, enjoyed this, will have a binge watch now :)
Thank you for including BOTH measurement systems (metric and imperial) in your videos!
Australia, New Zealand & Hawaii: *nervous coughing*
I'm in Australia from NZ and like I'm a little nerves
Again, watch the video. He specifically mentions this.
I live in Hawaii. I’ve never been on a plane 😂
Don't forget Micronesia lol
we don't get nervous over anything in aus
There are MANY airlines that fly directly over the pacific ocean. I, myself am a flight attendant and I have flown directly over the ocean. Airlines such as Fiji Airways, Qantas, Air Canada, Hawaiian Airlines, Air New Zealand all have similar routes to connect pacific cities to other well known long haul cities. The flight crew can manage to fly without being around an airport for a good amount of time but it is a safety measure to be nearby an airport by at least a 100KM radius.
Victor Prasad we don’t care
@@GermanAviation Isn't the truthful answer to this question that it's simply a shorter route to head toward the top of the globe. With the world essentially being sphere, its shorter to head north than belting a straight shot across the pacific??
@@MrDeodorizer especially if you're flying from America to Australia. Go north because it's shorter
Right, I think this applies to America specifically. I think foreign airliners probably don't care as much.
@@robertd3037 I care🙃
I live in Japan and East bound direct flights from Narita to Seattle or Los Angles go straight out over the Pacific. The West bound planes go up over the Aleutian Islands.
Air new zealand flys over the Pacific to south America. There is nowhere to land if an emergency arises.
brightside: why planes don't fly over the pacific ocean
hawaiian airlines: hold my lei
Lol
Los Angeles to Sidney is 15 hours over the middle of the Pacific.
Mariqueen lol
Accept the fact that earth was FLAT
Mariqueen Facebook moms: hahahahahhaha
I work for an airline & I send planes over the Pacific often. We might take the “Alaskan” or “Russian” route or we might not. It depends on the winds and turbulence mostly. We also need overflight permits from Russia that can take about a week to get. In the winter, a lot of the airports in AK aren’t ideal conditions, so we’ll go over the Pacific to use HI, Midway, Guam, etc. in case of emergency. You could read about ETOPS rules for airplanes over the Pacific & Atlantic if you’re interested.
But how does ETOPS work for the popular madrid-bogota route?
@@dreamthedream8929I’m not familiar with the route, but you can pretty much fly anywhere with 180 ETOPS. I think there is a NAT track that goes SW from Europe that you could use. I believe that the FAA prohibits flying over Venezuela though. You could find suitable ETOPS alternates whether you went North or South of Venezuela. There are some in West Africa if going South.
@@daniell9087 why do they prohibit flights over Venezuela 🤔
It's Flat....Gleason map
@@giovonnipistiola5140 Can't comments on it. Look into astrophysics and particle physics. It's clean and green
Oh yeah, I noticed this too. Thx for posting.
Check out the flight on Gleasons map, and it all makes perfect sense. Especially the flights from Japan to Europe.
@ Robert Stonestreet Thank you so much for being a critical thinker! The military has been using this map since its inception to get flights and men to the correct location on our level plane we all live on. Planes never adjusted for curvature while being flown or on autopilot. Some brave civilian pilots have been open about it. This video is pure propaganda aimed at the indoctrinated masses because millions more are learning the real truth. You would have been called a lunatic if you said the earth was shaped like a ball right up until the early 19 hundreds.
💯💯💯
That's exactly right 👍
Better yet, buy a globe.
“Why planes don’t fly over the Pacific Ocean?”
Because the planet is a thicc boi
F-zero91maru they do. This channel is trolling you
Actually he’s not wrong. Planes don’t fly at a straight line when looking at it from a 2-d map. It’s because of the curvature of the earth. Yes planes fly over the ocean, but not straight over them. But he is wrong about the planes don’t fly straight over the pacific. It really depends on the route
@@mquiroz90 Or... like in this case, says things which are actually 0% true... or 100% wrong.
I mean... I think most people realize that most of the people who go to Hawaii do so on planes... so I'm wondering... do people actually NOT realize that Hawaii IS in the Pacific Ocean? What about Japan? Do people not realize that Japan is the Pacific? Singapore? New Zealand? Hong Kong? Taiwan? The Philippines? Never heard of flying from US to China or vice versa?
Oh... and I left out Australia because it's possible to fly to Australia without crossing the Pacific... by going over the Indian Ocean instead.
@@seanmccormack3735 flights to honolulu seem to be irrelevant
*Next video* : Why Boats Don't Sail Over Bikini Bottom.
Lol
😂🤣
NinjaPubg321 RBLX unfunny bad execution
lol
THERES A WHOLE GAME CHAT IN HERE
I flew from Houston to Manila, and plenty of that route was over the Pacific Ocean. The first leg was Houston to Honolulu, then Honolulu to Guam, and then Guam to Manila. There is really no place to land a plane, between California and Hawaii.
Hey you went to my country
It's because the Earth is not how they say it is.
*”Alaska: at least it’s better than sinking”*
*J U N E A U I N A L A S K A*
@Cyberdemon Mike *Sinks in Venice, Italy*
Alaska or bust
Then it'll be *Alibts,* not Alaska.
I just uploaded a video of a cart going in circles it’s really funny please watch😇
They do fly across the Pacific. All the time. Everyday. Hundreds of them.
My wife is from the Philippines and we go back there every four years or so. We normally take the faster Alaska route, which takes us to Manila, usually stopping in either Taipei or Hong Kong. One year we took the "scenic" route, across the Pacific with a stop in Hawaii. It was longer, but a more interesting trip. Due to technical problems with the aircraft, we got to stay in a hotel in Honolulu for a day. Yes, they do fly over the Pacific, but it's not the preferred route.
Right?!
Not unless they are headed to the Hawaiian, Polynesian, etc.Islands. For example, a flight from Seattle to Tokyo goes over Aleutian Straights, unless there is a weather or traffic issue. My husband is an International Commercial Captain for 30+ years. Prior to this he flew fighters in the USAF. He knows his stuff. The major point the narrator is attempting to convey is that THE EARTH IS ELLIPTICAL, wider around the middle; Thanks
just checking flightradar24, seems like it's night over Pacific, yet more than 40 planes are airborne over the ocean.
@@1234567mrbob depends on your origin and destination, there are something like 100 flights per day just to/from Australia alone and the States, and they go near Tahiti and Hawaii, that would be the preferred route for flying to the Southern Hemisphere. Same for New Zealand, standard route.
SUMMARY: The great circle route is the shortest distance. The turbulence over the equator is always noticeable on trips from Australia to the USA or China.
Not the answer. The answer is that most of the Pacific is in the South, but only 10% of earths people are in the south. They fly over the Pacific every time they the Pacific is between them and their destination
Because the earth is flat
or maybe bc the map is not really what we told you. So the "artic circle" would be the normal route on a flat place.
It is called the GREAT CIRCLE route!! It works whether you are flying to TOKYO or to LONDON.
Brightside: “why planes don’t fly over the ocean”
Air New Zealand, Qantas: “wut?”
And Hawaiian
And Fiji
And United, delta and American.
Drew Castronovo ik aye
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Yeah, I think planes do fly over the Pacific Ocean.
Planes do actually fly over the Pacific ocean, when they go to Hawaii, Fiji, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Australia.
He said straight across. Never mind the thumbnail lol
Yeah obviously 😐
Of course they do, the vodeo title is bullcrap/clickbait
And New Zealand
Last time I looked to book a flight from Melbourne to Illinois, it was gonna take me along the ring of fire route. 🤷♂️
Ships do the same. Steaming straight across is called a rhumb line route. Heading north thru the Aleutian Islands then SW to asia,etc is called a great circle route, much shorter
Check out the flight or shipping routes on the Gleason map, and all will be revealed.
Not quite... Although the short route is short in nature, some flights would prefer riding the stream, in order to save fuel. If there is absolutely no wind, what you said would be true. If you take the spin of the earth into consideration, then routes also would vary somehow.
To say that planes fly a certain way to make use of favorable winds may be correct, but I watch planes flying opposite directions on the same day, both with same speed and model of aircraft. Can't both be right. The fact is the earth is as flat as a pool table. Gleasons map is correct. The earth is not a ball. I've done my research.
@@robertstonestreet6079 You still believe the earth is flat, interesting.
If a plane flies from the west, say U.S. to East Asia, because the jet stream is from the west to the east across the Pacific, at least in the northern hemisphere, in order to avoid the headwind, that plane's flight is on a great circle. In the opposite direction, when the plane flies from East Asia to north America, it does not use the great circle any more, but sometime, it follows the latitude line, which is a longer path, but assisted by the jet stream, the tailwind helps the plane save fuel and time. So the wind field is a factor that the flight planner would need to take into consideration.
I grew up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii and most definitely traveled both directions over the pacific- to the mainland US and to Philippines and India
no planes over the pacific:
Hawaii: am I a joke to you
Ocean
mahalo iā ‘oe (thank you)
That what I was thinking, how about Fiji no planes there I guess? How about the WWll? Theres no flight from California to Australia?
@@justaguy9776
I don't think planes had that much range at that time.
LA to Sydney too
New Zealand airlines: *are you sure about that?!*
Yes I am very sure.
Says the guy who clearly didn't watch the video.
Air New Zealand
Thank you
Thanos, the video is inevitable. Watch it.
"it's easy to forget airlines is a business"
What. It's hard to forget.
Especially if you’re flying Southwest
Airline is a business.
Airlines are a business.
@@valevisa8429 I seen what you're talking about...😁
@@robertallen6710I was corrected many times by others, and i always said thank you,you are helping me better my English,which by the way is my third language.I know some people don't like it. :)
I took a flight over the pacific when flying to Singapore we were over water the whole time
I like how they try to make this seem like this is the narrator’s channel. It’s a corporate channel owned by the same people who own 5 Minute Crafts.
conspiracy
Hence the dork narrator failing miserably at being funny with his pre-written bad jokes
Flat earth lol
Seth I wish I had a little more girth!😱😂
earth is flat period!
Hawaiian Airlines: *Am I a Joke to you?*
According to this bloke, you can't get there by air
@@oldjagman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez doesn't want you to get there by air either.
Ian Cypes 😂😂😂
i’m australian and ive been on heaps of planes (never had turbulence) so i’m not worried
Chrisworld 👏👏👏😂🤣👍
Because of the jet streams going east, usually eastbound trips are faster. What's interesting is that often flights between New York and Singapore or China usually fly eastbound In both directions for this reason.
I like how the 3D and 2D images are basically identical in that they show a line going straight over the Pacific Ocean
At this moment, there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of airline flights over the Pacific Ocean. The assertion that airlines avoid the Pacific is simply not true anymore.
Yes. Exactly... cause I live in hawaii. Lol which was me flying over the pacific.
@@specialagentweener1073 no according to this guy you didn't. The plane made a left in Alaska and flew over the bridge to get to Hawaii.
@@markydee48 totally lol
They also didn’t avoid it in the first place, it was because etops ratings didn’t exist that they weren’t allowed to in most cases and these days the reason planes don’t fly over the ocean most of the time has to do with flight time which he could’ve just explained by showing a map of the earth centered at the North Pole
Yeah how do you fly to hawaii
Almost forgot the earth was round there for a second
Oh wait but its not
You and 10,000 other wackos
@@lukesahlin1019 yes it is
You probably were next to a flat earther
@@mohammedalghannam6879 when is the last time you walked upside-down? Or drove upside down? Also do just 5 minutes of research on this. Check the flight time from one side of the world to the other. It's simple and easy.
This actually answered the question for me of why so many people have stories of having a lay over in Alaska. Especially people in the military
In fact, there are many flights over the Pacific.
For exanple:
United has a direct flight from Houston to Sydney, Australia.
Qantas has a direct flight from Sydney, Australia to Santiago, Chile.
And Qantas has also a direct flight from Sydney to Los Angeles, USA.
Also Delta and United and Kalitta Air have a direct flight from Los Angeles to Sydney.
LATAM has a direct flight from Santiago, Chile to Auckland, New Zealand.
Hope...i always come back here yo remind myself to listen. Year after year....i cant hear it sometimes too and im glad its always there
“our planet isn’t flat now-“
*was it flat before?*
It sure ain't round lol
Caleb is that a joke? please tell me you are joking
@@RYSyoutube It is flat, my uncle told his family he was going to do groceries and he never returned to his wife and son. Legend has that he fell off the earth.
he said, "our planet isn't flat, now is it?" which implies that it's not...
DJango Unchained oh, you right. my bad
I guess you've never flown from Los Angeles to Sidney, that flight definitely goes over the Pacific Ocean.
I have, and sadly, economy. About 14 hours cramped up, same old view out the window...The Pacific Ocean...No, it wasn't a bad flight at all.
*Best of Luck*
Same with Hawaii
He does point that out. But you have to sit through 4:44 to get there.
@@larry4111 Hey lets face it -- this guy will do literally anything for another video. The fact is, 90% of earths land mass, and 90% of earths people, are in the N Hemi. Most of the pacific is in the S Hemi. Does that help? They fly over the Pacific when there is a reason to fly over it. Most people would realize the answer to this question by simply examining a globe map of earth.
Due to the Closure of Russian Air Space to American and Japanese aircraft, my flight in 3 weeks to Tokyo from San Francisco is going directly west over the pacific. I've already checked weeks of flight route data online of this flight.
I like this speaker, he has a great voice, has some funny moments, and explains things very well.
Australia: “Am I a joke to you?”
Same difference here I am from Hawaii
Flew from San Francisco to NZ. Right over the middle of the Pacific. and that was great circle route.
😁😁😂
@@thenakedcheese2863 me too
@@KGyNation its purposefully written in a click baity way
"A little bit of girth can go a long way"
We haven't met before, have we?
That’s what she said.
No.. We havent..
"To cut a long story short, which isn't my thing" - you're not kidding! Four minutes or so just to get to the "great circle" point. And the oblate spheroid one.
Although not related to the clip title, the jet stream stuff _is_ informative. (But if I'd had less time, I'd probably have closed the clip after - or even before! - getting to the string bit, so would have missed it.)
I live in Australia and I've flown over the Pacific dozens of times on commercial flights
Having flown several times between Australia and Los Angeles and New Zealand and Los Angeles there's no choice, but over the Pacific. Closest airport passed over was Nuku'Alofa, Tonga and that was still a long way, At 38,000 ft it's usually smooth - maybe a few bumps
at the inter-tropical convergence zone.
It is a super smooth passage generally. I loved flying on the now-retired 747 where they have a snack bar at the back.
I just flew over it last week! Dallas to Sydney, Australia non stop! Fifteen hours and forty seven minutes!
I wouldn’t say there is no choice, you can fly over Africa/Europe and Asia instead
@@erikaschlemmer8062 from Sydney Australia to Vancouver Canada 19.75 hours , i felt the flight will never ends
I've flown from LAX to Sydney. That's why I clicked on the video. I'm like, "They fly over the Pacific all the time". Long flight, but Australia is great.
“The planet is a little bigger in the middle, just like me after the holidays “ why is that me 😂😂
If a large airliner crashes into the ocean, it will most likely disintegrate and everybody will die on impact.
@@Zenigundam that made no sense and had no connection to Kylee hurkens comment
UrAverageHuman hahah oop
Zenigundam Ookie tr
Zenigundam
Ah yes this makes sense to the comment
Hmmm... I flew non stop Melbourne (Australia) to LA (CA) and then back to Sydney a couple of weeks later - regular flights all the time
I went from Sydney, Australia to L.A., USA, we flew right over the Pacific. We litterally saw abit of new Zealand and were a couples 100 miles off Hawaii
"It's easy to forget that an airline is a business"
Really? Who has ever forgotten they are a business?
Like a plane, it went over head.
Me didn’t even know airlines were businesses thought they were just brands
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@@user-gl2en8yz6v get out
@@user-gl2en8yz6v dont got to the towers please
"Why planes don't fly over the Pacific Ocean"
"Actually people do fly over the Pacific Ocean to get to Australia"
Though like the video says the routes do fly over airports just in case of emergency
You definitely find the USA to AUS routes zigzag a little bit just to pass over pacific islands
He says that at about 5.14. ;-D
I used to live in Australia and I took the Pacific route to America
I live in America and I’ve gone lover it twice. Australia and china
Ikr I was born in Wales (UK) and I'm living in Australia rn
Interesting video. I suspected the reason was the plane was trying to follow a great circle to minimize the distance (as you said a straight line on a 2D map is not the shortest distance on a sphere). But my favorite part of the video was the cameo by your cute kitty at 3:00, rubbing his head against the globe.
Yes, a great circle is always the shortest route anywhere you fly, but that is not the reason. The reason is that the Pacific is mostly in the South, while only 10% of earths people live in the south. If 90% of earth people are in the North Hemisphere, it follows that 90% of flying will be in the North where most of the Pacific isnt at
very nice information.. thank you👍👍
LA -Hawaii
LA-Japan
LA-China
LA-Australia
Shall I go on..?
Please do!!
Mary Anne
Honolulu- Sydney
Honolulu- Melbourne
Honolulu- Brisbane
Honolulu- Wellington
Honolulu- Auckland
Honolulu- Tokyo
Honolulu- Seoul
Honolulu- Manila
Honolulu- Taipei
Honolulu- Bangkok
Honolulu- Suva
Honolulu- Kuala Lumpur
Honolulu- Los Angeles
Honolulu- Seattle
Honolulu- San Diego
Honolulu- San Francisco
Honolulu- Anchorage
Honolulu- Beijing
Honolulu- Shanghai
Honolulu- Hong Kong
Honolulu- Singapore
Houston to Honolulu
Houston to Tokyo
Houston to Beijing
Houston to Sydney
Houston to Hong Kong
Houston to Manila
Sydney to Santiago de Chile
LA- New Zealand too
I don’t think I’ve ever forgotten that an airline is a business
You are so right. The airlines never let you forget it. Over the years we have lost meals due to business decisions, are now being charged for luggage, along with a slew of many regulations and fees that we never had before. The seats have gotten closer and closer together as a result of "business" decisions on the part of the airlines. And the staff are cockier than ever especially the agents behind the ticket counters.
Love the humor. And cat 🐈 getting his scratch in. 👌🏼
Great info. My husband is a pilot. This is great info for those of us who are not.
Hmmmmm, trying to figure out how a plane can get to hawaii, without flying over the Pacific Ocean...
It only flies halfway.
@@lostpony4885 halfway over the Pacific not halfway to Hawaii I hope.
Or America or Australia
I can verify that planes do fly over the Pacific. Go to Guam, and you will likely leave the states, stop in Hawaii, then go on to Guam....right over the Pacific Ocean.
The plane take a bus
LA to Sydney non-stop. Every day. Across the Pacific. Every day.
Vancouver to Australia
@Prevailing Right - You need to take Amtrak's Pineapple Express from San Francisco to Honolulu. Just twenty hours. I don't recommend the trip. Unfortunately, Amtrak has already had a few fatalities due to outside water pressure issues causing toilet flushing safety issues.
Maybe if you actually watched the video you would know he mentions the straight flight to Australia...
Pamela Bonaparte also Vancouver to Auckland... seems this guy didn’t look up any flight routes before making his little misinformed video
just swim, bud
Thank u this was so straight forward most books u read try to over explain this but this was percect
*perfect
So then "perfect" is a vid, the title of which claims planes dont fly over the pacific???' That is a lie
The answer to this is: Planes do fly over the pacific every time the most cost effective route is over the Pacific.
The only reason there is a lot less traffic over the Pacific is that 90% of earths people are in the North Hemisphere, so 90% of airline travel is in the NH. On the other hand most of the Pacific is in the Southern Hemisphere.
Its that simple, and didnt take 9 minutes to say it
Lol, you just asked "Why are you responding to my comment after a year has gone by?"
Then you delete the question apparently.
Possible answers: Because I wanted to? What is it about "a year"?? How old was the vid when YOU responded to it? Why did you respond after all that time?
Question, if you didnt desire a comment, why is your comment still there? Obviously you do know how to delete comments, correct?
Botton line: this is a public form. It is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS as to what or when I chose to make a comment.
Having a difficult day maybe? So sorry.......
Please remake this video after looking up the flight route of SFO to Australia
“That little bit of added girth can go a long way” god you sound like my ex
Oof
garfield That’s what she said.
I’ll see myself out…
garfield I was like 👀👀👀👀👀 when I heard that lol
"It's easy to forget that an airline is a business..."
No no, the cost of bottled water onboard keeps reminding me..!
Bottled water second biggest scam on the people of earth. Global warming was the first. Original data from 1934 we were the hottest ever recorded and no cars. Ok some cars. We have been basically cooling ever since. More likely ice age
@@mattlord2906 Bottled water on airplanes is expensive => Global warming is a hoax...
Are you high or something??
@@evangelospapadopoulos2292 presumably he's at 40,000 feet flying over the Pacific :p
oh god, the price of mineral water on the plane, makes me cry
Plastic water bottles.....but let's get rid of straws. LOL
We flew directly over the Pacific from Houston to Auckland New Zealand.
Garuda Indonesia used to fly LAX-Honolulu-BIAK- Jakarta. Honolulu-Biak is a 15 hour leg over the pacific. They stopped flying in in the 2000’s. But they flew it for 30 years.
"long story short which is not my forte" you can say that again
I don't even think breathing is his forte. 😆
Lol exactly
Better title: Why SOME planes don't fly over the Pacific Ocean.
Ed Ventures trueee
Ed Ventures
Exactly!
Better title.
He didn't say ALL planes though but it still can be misleading
Exactly, because many do fly over the Pacific
I flew over the pacific several times and on P-3s and Dc-9s. The only time we took the northern route was when the headwinds where to high. Flying over the pacific we would usually stop in Hawaii then on to wake island or Guam depending on the winds
Errr, hello, Australian checking in. Planes do fly over the Pacific every day and night. We have to, to get from e.g. Sydney to LA, Auckland to LA, and many, many more routes. Bless 🙏🏼✨
Was anyone watching this while flying Sydney to Los Angeles wondering what this guy was on about?
Sydney to Santiago, but yeah. This video is ridiculous on so many levels.
He talks about this at the end of the video 🙄😂 you guys always comment and don’t even understand what’s going on. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@jonnnn7699 I watched the whole vid first, but still its entertaining to come across this video while flying over the pacific.
Melbourne to LA
BarnOwl I mean I guess that is funny but he means ideally which I’m sure you know. Honestly flying straight over that ocean would freak me out a little bit I don’t really take trips on planes much anyways.
Hawaii:*exists*
Bright side:I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that
Hawaii was my first thought when I read the video title and then searched for this comment.
7:43 or you can watch the whole video😉
Australia and NZ
@@TheBlessedMeek I guess the Japanese tourists here in Hawaii don’t exist
@@TD-ee9om I don't know what point you're making. There's no such thing as a Japanese tourist. They've never existed. So you guess right I guess
its too purrrfect I g ot what you did there when the cat was in the video
I've flown over the Pacific (as a passenger) at least 20 times. It's fun. You should try it.
“It’s easy to forget airline is a business” 🤣
Dean Tarnovsky they are in business, in business to make as much profit as possible
it sure is
1:17
Maybe
Look at Curry Man 🤣😂😂😂yes
Long story short: it's the shortest distance. Earth is round. Don't have to spend 10mins
He needs the video to be 10min to receive money from youtube.
dinoripper123 that’s not how that works but ok
dinoripper123 No it is not. If you’re video is over 10 minutes long you can choose to put multiple ads on it and get more money. First of all that doesn’t mean longer videos automatically earn more money, a 5 minute video with one ad will generate the same amount of money as a 30 minute video with one ad. Second this video is only 9:23 seconds long so it can only have one ad on it.
Its flat watch Eric dubay
@@luckygames2558 No.
I fly Detroit to Tokyo on a regular basis. It's the shortest route to go up and over and on occasion you can actually see the Aleutian Islands as you fly over.
wow this video is amazing.. thanks
Turns out the video is a very long airline seatbelt ad
Bright Side: Why planes dont fly over the Pacific Ocean.
Hawaii: Am I a joke to you?
Hawaii is just like me
Guam island too
Meri See I took that flight as well. It went right over the Pacific Ocean.
@Meri See not a straight flight there isn't
I took a flight to Japan I had to go thru Alaska from Washington state then to Guam then to Japan just to get to Okinawa japan
I've flown from Seattle's SeaTac airport to Frankfurt Germany which passed over the polar ice cap(Greenland).
this video went straight over the pacific ocean to deliver me simple info
New Zealand, Australia & Hawaii:
Are you sure about that?
Congratulations, you're the 1000000th person to make the same, totally original and smart joke!
@@RyanBreaker thank you 🙃❤
@@RyanBreaker congratulations you took time out of your day to spread hate when you could of shut your mouth!
Philippines left the group
"it is easy to forget that an airline is a business" - No, it is not.
They're laying off a lot of employees to stay profitable.. that is a BUSINESS decision
Aka, maximize profit.
some people think airplanes are like a bus, just another way to travel. not everyone sees the business side of things.
I've flown Qantas from LA to Brisbane many many times straight across the Pacific.
great video thanks 😊
“It’s easy to forget that an airline is a business.”
You’re kidding, right?
Christopher Alston It’s easy to forget that schools are businesses, especially k-12.
Easy to forget as I smash my knees into the seat ahead while simultaneously bruising both sides of my pelvis with the armrests on my just-too-narrow seat and wonder why they don't space these chairs out just a bit more.
Christopher Alston haha
This video is aimed more for kids
@@taoist32 A school is not a business, its funded by force of the government from homeowners. There is no business out there that has the right to force you to buy their product. Its a government service.
“Anyone tuning in from the Equator right now” - I literally live in Ecuador, a few miles form the Equatorial line 😂
I never noticed until reading your comment that the country of Ecuador is located near the equator and is probably named after it! 😁
oh wow💀 is it actually always hot there?
Yes Mj. Ecuador is name after the equator.
Hot right?
@@abbyhuss7625 indeed x) tourists here are marveled by the year-round steady weather we have. We maintain a 68 F (20 C) during the day, and a 49 F (9 C) during the night year round.
The only "Seasons" we get here is "Summer" because during July and August its less cloudy than normal, and "Winter" because it rains the most during March and April.
That's also why we get so excited to see snow or Fall views when we travel to countries up North or down South :D !!
I’ve flown from Los Angeles and Oakland, AND Sacramento, to/ from Sydney Australia.
Over the Pacific.