Route
What you fly over from Barcelona to Los Angeles
Between Barcelona and Los Angeles your aircraft touches 7 countries: it lands in two and flies over 5. This is the route computed as in your Passport: a great circle between the two airports and a 3-mile corridor over the countries.
Countries in flying order
- 1SpainLanded
- 2FranceFlown over
- 3United KingdomFlown over
- 4IrelandFlown over
- 5GreenlandFlown over
- 6CanadaFlown overManitoba · Newfoundland and Labrador · Nunavut · Ontario · Quebec
- 7United StatesLandedCalifornia · Montana · North Dakota · Nevada · Utah · Wyoming
Estimated great-circle route with the usual corridor adjustment; the actual flight varies with wind and traffic. The return flight crosses the same countries in reverse.
What you see from the window
The Pyrenees on departure. Over southern England and Ireland the Atlantic begins, and mid-flight the southern tip of Greenland appears. Then Labrador, Hudson Bay, the plains of North Dakota and Montana and the Rockies over Wyoming and Utah before the descent into Los Angeles.
The shortest path between two points on Earth is a great-circle arc: that is why a flight from Barcelona to Los Angeles goes so far north, up to Greenland, and looks like a detour on a flat map.
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