Route
What you fly over from Madrid to Mexico City
Between Madrid and Mexico City 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 5 km corridor over the countries.
Countries in flying order
- 1SpainLanded
- 2PortugalFlown over
- 3United States of AmericaFlown overFlorida · Georgia
- 4MexicoLandedMexico · Hidalgo · State of Mexico · Puebla · Veracruz
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
After Galicia and the Azores, the whole Atlantic. The first American land is the coast of Georgia and Florida; then the Gulf of Mexico and the arrival over Veracruz, with the mountains rising to the high plateau. On the approach, on a clear day, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, two volcanoes over 5,000 m beside the city.
The usual aircraft
This route is usually flown by Airbus A350, Boeing 787. At cruise the cabin is held at a pressure equivalent to about 6 000 ft (1 829 m) of altitude: that is why your ears pop on the way down.
Mexico City sits at 2,240 m. The aircraft lands higher than its cabin altitude at cruise, so your ears work the opposite way from usual.
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