{"id":7429,"date":"2018-02-02T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2018-02-27T16:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T22:06:02","slug":"the-mysteries-of-airline-routes-overflight-fees-and-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7429","title":{"rendered":"The Mysteries of Airline Routes, Overflight Fees and Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcmap.com\/\">Great Circle Mapper<\/a> is a useful tool to find the shortest distance between two points on earth.<\/p>\n<p>I recently flew Santiago-Toronto and was curious about our route and subsequent delayed arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The shortest distance is illustrated below (notwithstanding winds, overflight fees and other considerations):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/pdf\/2018\/gcmap_scl_yyz.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The route flown on the evening of 11 January, 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/ACA93\">Air Canada 93<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/pdf\/2018\/scl_yyz_ac93_actualroute.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The lengthy departure taxi and subsequent route lead to a delayed arrival, misconnections and several days of lost luggage. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aircanada.com\">Air Canada<\/a> service, other than the delay and repercussions was fine.   I&#8217;ve asked them about the route and if they choose to avoid overflight fees, which, observing the path, would seem to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>26 February 2018 AC93 route snapshots:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/02\/IMG_2480b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/02\/IMG_2479b.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Circle Mapper is a useful tool to find the shortest distance between two points on earth. I recently flew Santiago-Toronto and was curious about our route and subsequent delayed arrival. The shortest distance is illustrated below (notwithstanding winds, overflight fees and other considerations): The route flown on the evening of 11 January, 2018 (Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7439,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions\/7439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}