flight routes

It’s not restricted airspace—so why do airlines avoid it? The answer has more to do with safety than politics. If a location is a no-fly zone (also known as an …

For those traveling from Texas to Hawaii, you might notice an interesting flight path: flights from Houston to Honolulu or from Dallas to Hawaii often avoid crossing directly over Mexican …

While planning my wife, Sharon’s, “JetBlue 25 for 25” trips, I fell down a fun rabbit hole. I was searching flights for her and noticed that Buffalo–JFK clocks in at …

Have you ever seen the flight patterns of flights from Japan to the United States? They never go directly across the Pacific Ocean to get to, say, San Francisco. They …

American Airlines operates mainly under the legacy airline hub-and-spoke system. This means the airline has airports spread throughout the US, which serve as the main connecting points for the rest …