Different types of airplanes have different speeds. It changes your mind about the distances. Actually a type of airplane should have about same speeds in every routes. But they have not. For example;
No it shouldn't.
See, planes aren't made of magic.
They take time to accelerate and slow down, and fly and can fly faster the higher they are.
They also typically go slow on the final approach.
This means they won't magically start going at cruising speed at the start of the flight as they take-off and stop instantly from cruising speed as they land.
But this has the most significant effect on short flights making them appear quite slow. The longer the flight, the less significant the effect.
This is an A333 airplane has 575 kmh average speed. But it flights from Hong Kong to China with the speed of 414 kmh. But same airplane flights between Singapore to China may has 690kmh average speed about %50 more speed than the first path.
And notice how there are roughly 3 stages for both?
Take-off and ascent.
Cruise.
Landing.
Notice how each stage is basically the same for both aircraft?
Notice how the difference is how much time is spent in the cruise stage?
What changed? Nothing has changed except path.
What changed? The distance between the locations and thus the time spent in cruise.
Average speed from Toronto to Hong Kong: 810 kms. This speed is practically impossible for a B77.
If we see the average speed of B77 types, its about 530 kms.
You sure do love mixing up your units.
Its average speed is closer to 530 MILES per hour, not km per hour.
So, in kph, that works out to be ~850 km/hr.
So that sure seems to be fine.
In fact, the cruise speed for a 777 is 892 km/hr, with a max speed of 945 km/hr
So that means the path is fine, there is no reason to think it is magically shorter.
The other route Qantas using good airplanes generally has 4 motors. The average time is 13 hours
Really? It sure seems closer to 15 hours.
Because B744 is a better aircraft has higher speed than a B737.
You had a 777 before.
But yes, the 747 is slightly faster, with a cruise speed of 907 km/hr instead of 892....
So not much difference.
Over the course of 15 hours that would be 225 km.
Even so I think the path between Sydney to Santiago may be a bit shorter. But this event doesn't change the result.
Which just screws over the common FE map even more.