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Significative weather map issued by the AWC of the US National Weather Service for transatlantic flights. Each local NWS office issues Terminal aerodrome forecasts (TAFs) for airports under its area of responsibility. These forecasts are only valid for 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) around the airfield. [1]
A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, Latin America, or vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft , airships , balloons and other aircraft.
North Atlantic Tracks for the westbound crossing of February 24, 2017, with the new reduced lateral separation minima (RLAT) Tracks shown in blue. The North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), are a structured set of transatlantic flight routes that stretch from eastern North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, within the ...
American Airlines flight 106 from JFK to Heathrow arrived 54 minutes early on Wednesday morning, with a flight time of just six hours and seven minutes. It reached a top speed of 778 mph, or 676 ...
Many flights on Saturday were diverted, including an Etihad arrival to Manchester from Abu Dhabi which landed in Frankfurt and three transatlantic flights to Heathrow ended up in Brussels. Show ...
The Boeing 757 used to be the main transatlantic workhorse but is losing market share to Airbus. New narrow-body planes designed for long-haul flights are changing how people fly.
The following is a list of transatlantic flights classified by airline. Some flights may be transatlantic while not being classed as such; for instance SQ21&22 (alongside 23&24) may fly over the Atlantic if wind conditions are preferable, but may fly over Asia or the Arctic Ocean instead.
This forced supersonic jets like the Concorde into strictly routes over water like transatlantic flights. But the Concorde stopped flying since 2003 over concerns about its economic viability.