How flight routes look on the accurate world map
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New york to Hawaii is a good route too
Sure. Yet for some reason, flights from South Africa to Argentina don't take three times as long as those from New York to London, and don't pass over Brazil and West Africa to save on fuel costs.
I'm starting to think the whole flat earth meme got launched so that even Alex Jones could look credible and rational in comparison.
Tomorrow the fastest flight from Durban in South-Afrika to Buenos Aires in Argentina takes 35 hours. Tuesday 29 hours. Thursday 24 hours.
For some reason, this flight does not exist practically. Wonder why.
Would that be flights with one or more stops, where total time includes waiting? Because the overseas-only flight from Johannesburg to Sao Paulo takes only nine hours (though I'll give you that that's in Brazil). About as much, in fact as the flight from Johannesburg to Perth, Australia. And that one doesn't fly over India either.
So no, the above projection looks great for the North Hemisphere, but as soon as flights further South are accounted for, it appears they're moving in rather counter-intuitive arcs. The best example would be the Sydney-Santiago direct, which manages to span half the circumference of the "disc" in thirteen hours. Now, I realize both Australians and Chileans can make even a garbage truck fly with enough bubble gum and duct tape, but even they aren't that inventive.
Looked some more into it. From Cape Town the flight still takes 24 hours on Thursday. It flies to Luanda in Angola, then to Sao Paulo in Brazil, a flight that takes about 8.5 hours, then it flyes from Sau Paulo to Buenos Aires.
So yeah, looks like it passes over both Brazil and West Africa, how about that.
So wait, a flight from Luanda to Sao Paulo takes eight and a half hours, covering over twice the distance of the flight from New York to London, which takes seven and a half. I didn't know Luanda still flied the Concorde, because that's practically supersonic if calculated on the map above.
That is what the airlines claim. According to Flightpedia The average flight time between Sao Paulo to Luanda is 16 hours 50 minutes.
https://www.flightpedia.org/flights-from-sao-paulo-to-luanda.html
This flight do exist though. So you could always buy a ticked, bring a clock, and see for yourself how long the flight takes.
The same site also shows the New York - London route as taking fifteen hours.
https://www.flightpedia.org/flights-from-new-york-to-london.html
So again, not exactly a major time difference with regard to the over twice the distance.
The key is in the stopover. In Sao Paulo, you are going to have to wait for 5 hours and 45 min before catching the transfer flight to Buenos Aires. So the airline is not counting on landing on time, they always going to be a few hours late.
Anyway, a ticked only cost $800, and the flight goes weekly, so it is possible to try out for yourself.
I think that in this case, that is, for flat-earth theory in general, the burden of proof lies on the side whose ideas of terrestrial geography aren't already programmed into every navigational system in the world. I'm afraid being the intrepid explorer is up to you at this point. Feel free to take a GPS on the trip.