how do pilots cut time on flights?

Question

it never really made sense to me how you could travel the same distance in less time if the airplane isn’t going any faster. how is the time reduced?

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Answer 1

Commercial airplanes file and follow flight plans that are like highways in the sky. They go from one ground fix to the next to the next. Be This keeps the aircraft tidy and arranged in the sky. To save time the airplanes can go directly to a further fixed point that skip some zig-zags of intermediate fixes.