my flight got delayed but the pilot said they would go faster to make up for lost time and we ended up arriving early. This got me thinking why can’t planes always go at this faster speed?
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Airline pilot here. “Flying faster” usually means taking shortcuts on the route if air traffic allows. For shorter flights, making the plane go faster barely makes any difference in the time as the optimum speed is already pretty close to the max speed possible. For super long transalantic flights maybe flying faster will make an appreciable difference.
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