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Well, my boss just left for taiwan from montreal in a direct flight...that's what he told me this morning, thus the reason of my thread. Or I just might be completly out of it and heard something completly different 
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Air canada are a bit weird - they claim that there are 0 stops on that route, but if you try to book a ticket, it says there are a stop in vancouver. Hope your boss doesn't leave the plane there
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When you get to Vancouver they make you stand up and walk around in the plane...Originally posted by BlackCat
Air canada are a bit weird - they claim that there are 0 stops on that route, but if you try to book a ticket, it says there are a stop in vancouver. Hope your boss doesn't leave the plane there
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Re: Flying around the world.
Hey! It takes about 13 hours to get from L.A. to Taiwan...and I'm sure it doesn't take 8 hours to get from Montreal to L.A.Originally posted by Spec
Then why does it take 21 hours to fly from montreal to taiwan!?
It sounds like they're taking you the long way round.
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now if you keep on traveling past the international date line once a day...it stays the same
so time travel is possible....just expensiveanti steam and proud of it
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When you jump, does it matter much which direction you jump?Originally posted by Spec
Well, if you think about it, the plane is moving at that speed to automaticly, plus the speed its travelling at...right?
My question is, instead of flying the same direction the earth is spinning, why not fly the other way? Logicaly, it should take a lot less time right?
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Do you jump much farther if you jump against the direction of the Earth's spin?
Logically you should be able to jump a few hundred yards right because the Earth spins so fast.Last edited by Lul Thyme; November 23, 2006, 03:56.Comment
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That's not exactly true...Originally posted by Richelieu
Tell him he's wrong. Fuel economy alone dictates that planes always take the shorter route.
On a personal note, i'm from Abitibi - north of Montreal - and i can tell you that the population in our region doesn't match with the numbers of jets we see flying overhead - and that's only when the weather conditions make it possible for us to see them.
There ARE prevailing wind patters that may somehow make a slightly longer route cheaper but not to the extent that Spec seems to believe I think.Comment
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Originally posted by Spec
555 mph x 21 = 11665 miles
Distance between taiwan and montreal is 7848 miles...they even have the graph. Why not go directly, or why does it take so much time?
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1.How do you know that's not a direct path?
I thought it was common knowledge that on most map projections, shortest path on the Earth's surface do not appear as straight line on the map?
For all you know, that's a direct path.
2. There are wind patterns which are very important.
For example, flying from Mtl to Europe is about one hour shorter than back, just because of that.
3.Final point, unless you can find us some sort of source for your 21 hour direct flight YUL-TSA, I'm going to assume you heard wrong.Last edited by Lul Thyme; November 23, 2006, 06:52.Comment
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