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 5 km corridor over the countries.
Countries in flying order
- 1United KingdomLanded
- 2IrelandFlown over
- 3CanadaFlown overNewfoundland and Labrador · Nova Scotia · Prince Edward Island
- 4United States of AmericaLandedConnecticut · 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. With luck, Manhattan on the final turn.
The usual aircraft
This route is usually flown by Boeing 777, 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.
London–New York is one of the most-flown intercontinental routes in the world, with over twenty flights a day each way. The first scheduled passenger service across the Atlantic, in 1939, linked New York with Southampton, London's port, with stops in Newfoundland and Ireland.
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