2007-11-25 04:09:57 · 4 answers · asked by The Question Asker 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
It goes from California towards Boston (which is in the East Coast) and then it crosses the Atlantic Ocean.
2007-11-25 04:23:29 · answer #1 · answered by Oli-NYC 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If there were no weather it would follow the great circle route which heads you north east in to Canada. It looks like the long way round until you look at it on a globe.
Weather usually complicates the picture. The 'jet stream' is a high altitude, high speed, wind that circles the globe heading east and very roughly follows the Canadian border and continues out over the Atlantic and Europe (it can swing down to southern California or Florida, but it's usually up north). The jet stream is so fast that it makes a significant difference to intercontinental flights.
So the actual route will take you to the jet stream in an economical way and then follow it as much as possible.
Return trips go to greater lengths to avoid the jet stream, I've flown way north over the Baffin Sea in the far north of Canada while returning from the UK and crossed the border as far west as Seattle!
2007-11-25 07:08:43 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assuming the flight has filed for the shortest air distance,(a Great Circle route) the initial course will be a northeastly one taking it up over Canada and the southern tip of Greenland and then, after Greenland, a southeasterly course which will take it into England.
2007-11-25 04:42:26 · answer #3 · answered by pilota300b4 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
East. Pretty Neat of you think about it. It Crosses the US and Atlantic.
2007-11-25 04:19:06 · answer #4 · answered by Charles 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋