Oh no? What about the extremely entertaining parallax argument I made before. Go dig it up, its somewhere around, and no-one answered it...
And still, no-one has an argument for my point. Allow me to put a seed of doubt in your heads. If the distance was longer, and airports only load up just enough fuel for the journey(ironically, to save fuel due to weight), and the distance is up to 5 times longer, how on Earth do planes make it? And about your argument about times being based on experience rather than actual distance, how is it that a plane with a cruising speed of less Mach 1 is able to either travel further than the distance time ratio would allow on a FE, or break the speed of sound without anybody noticing?