Air India flies nonstop Delhi to San Francisco over the Pacific Ocean to set a world record

Air India has set a world record by flying Delhi to San Francisco nonstop over the Pacific Ocean instead of the Atlantic.
The Pacific route is almost 1,400km longer than the Atlantic one, and the flight covered 15,300 kilometres in 14.5 hours. However, in spite of this being a longer route, the flight took almost two hours less because of tailwinds that blow in the same direction as an aircraft, thereby allowing it to go faster.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 23 October 2016.

On the return journey it will fly back over the Atlantic to get advantage of tailwinds on both the outbound and inbound flights.
Air India uses the Boeing-777-200 which, on an average, burns 9,600 litres of fuel for each hour of flying. Therefore, a shorter flying time on the Delhi-SFO route — from an hour in summer to three hours (in winter) — would mean tremendous fuel savings for the airline.


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