{"id":158438,"date":"2024-12-16T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-planes-dont-fly-straight-lines\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:00:16","slug":"all-about-routing-why-dont-planes-fly-in-straight-line-flight-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=158438","title":{"rendered":"All About Routing: Why Don&#8217;t Planes Fly In Straight Line Flight Paths?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but flights rarely fly directly from the departure to the destination. As the distance between a city pair increases, flight paths become increasingly less-linear in a straight-line sense. Perhaps you&#8217;ve been a curious passenger checking out your flight&#8217;s path in the seatback             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257246\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ife\/\"  >inflight entertainment (IFE)<\/a><\/span> screen or have noticed seemingly illogical flight paths between cities while browsing flight tracking websites. There are many reasons why flights don&#8217;t travel directly between airports, and this article will identify and explain some of the reasons why flight paths zig and zag enroute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How wind, regulations, and more influence the routes that planes fly between cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,14505,14776,629,5239,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-flight-planning","category-new-flight-paths","category-pilots","category-route","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158439,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158438\/revisions\/158439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}