Route
What you fly over from London to New York
Between London and New York your aircraft touches 4 countries: it lands in two and flies over 2. 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
- 1United KingdomLanded
- 2IrelandFlown over
- 3CanadaFlown overNewfoundland and Labrador · Nova Scotia · Prince Edward Island
- 4United StatesLandedConnecticut · Massachusetts · New York · Rhode Island
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
Wales and Ireland go by quickly and the Atlantic takes most of the flight. Land returns over Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and the approach to New York comes in over Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
On July 8, 1939, Pan Am's Yankee Clipper left New York on its first passenger flight on the northern route to England, with stops in Shediac, Botwood and Foynes; it reached Southampton on July 10.
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