Why does it take 19 hrs by flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong but takes 12 hours while coming back?
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1 :
Trade Winds....
2 :
Pacific Jet Stream?
3 :
Time zone......
4 :
That's easy. It's downhill coming back.
5 :
If the route is the same, the shorter time coming back has to do with the curvature of the earth.
6 :
I'm not sure, but I think it's because of the wind. The wind blows in different directions in different areas, it also can blow harder in some areas. So I think when you fly on an airplane to Hong Kong that maybe flying higher up will get you there faster than coming back to Los Angeles.
7 :
not so big difference
8 :
shouldnt be such a big difference, where did you get those humbers? but the winds could make it a quicker but not by that much.
9 :
Depends on what you mean: 1. The aircraft travelled across the Atlantic over Europe on one flight and across the Pacific on the other way. 2. If it is just the timezones, you were flying backward to a later timezone and then came back towards the earlier one.
10 :
the jet stream usually goes in an easternly direction, take when i went to lax from lhr , it took around 11 hours going and about 9.5 hours coming back. i think a difference of 7 hours is strange though. mabe you are allowed to take a beeter route one way .
11 :
Different flight plan, the curvation of the earth means the pilot is making a big arc back to Los Angeles
