![]() Stretching a string between North America and Japan on a globe will demonstrate why this really is the shortest route despite appearances. The apparent curve of the route is a result of distortion when plotted onto a conventional map projection and makes the route appear to be longer than it really is. In the example (right), the aircraft travelling westward from North America to Japan is following a great-circle route extending northward towards the Arctic region. The absolute distance between two points is the great-circle distance, which is always the shortest geographical route. Superlative flights Īirline routes between San Francisco and Tokyo following the most direct great circle (top) westward, and following a longer-distance jet stream route (bottom) when heading eastward Thomson Airways defines the Boeing 737 as a short and mid-haul airliner while the Boeing 767 and 787 as long haul.Lufthansa defines its fleet as long-haul for wide-body aircraft such as the Airbus A330/ Airbus A340, Airbus A350 and Airbus A380, or Boeing 747, medium-haul for narrow-body aircraft like the Airbus A320 and 737 families, and short-haul for regional jets like the Embraer E-Jets or the Bombardier CRJ-900.Delta Air Lines defines its Boeing 717, MD-88 and MD-90 as short-haul domestic aircraft, Boeing 757, Boeing 737, Airbus A319 and A321 as long-haul domestic and Boeing 777, 767, 747, Airbus A330 and transoceanic Boeing 757 as long-haul.United Airlines defines short-haul flights as being less than 700 mi (610 nmi 1,100 km) and long-haul flights as being greater than 3,000 mi (2,600 nmi 4,800 km). ![]() American Airlines defines short-/medium-haul flights as being less than 3,000 mi (2,600 nmi 4,800 km) and long-haul as either being more than 3,000 mi (2,600 nmi 4,800 km) or being the New York–Los Angeles and New York–San Francisco routes.Air France defines short-haul as domestic, medium-haul as within Europe/North Africa and long haul as the rest of the world.The now defunct airline Air Berlin defined short- and medium-haul as flights to Europe/North Africa and long-haul as those to the rest of the world. The Association of European Airlines defined Long-haul as flights to Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australasia and medium-haul as flights to North Africa and Middle East. ![]() ![]()
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