Flight time by route

How these flight times are estimated

Each route's duration is an estimate derived from the great-circle distance between the two airports, not a live schedule lookup. We take the shortest path over the curve of the Earth, add a small routing margin because real flight tracks bend for wind and airways, divide by a typical jet cruise speed, and add a fixed allowance for taxi, climb, and descent. That puts most non-stop estimates within roughly 10 to 15 percent of the published block time. Wind is the biggest swing: a westbound transatlantic crossing into the jet stream can run an hour longer than the same route eastbound. For the precise air time on your specific flight, enter the real departure and arrival times in the live calculator, which strips out the time-zone shift for you.