Interesting Flight Routes

Couple of days back I was tracking flight routes and I took pictures of some interesting routes. All pictures were taken from flighradar24 app. And up is North in all photos.

Picture above shows route from SF to Dubai. See how the flight goes north of Greenland. This is a polar route. There are more polar routes shown later.

This picture (above) is that of Dubai to Washington DC. About 9 hours into the flight and 4 more hours to go. The flight is shown in red color in the top right of the picture flying over Greenland.

The picture above shows Dubai to Washington (or is it New York) route - note that the place was flying over Greenland at the time the picture was shot. And this is NOT a polar route - at no point in the route is the latitude above 67degrees.

See this picture above. The plane is flying from the east cost in USA to a place in Eastern Asia (Beijing / Taipei / Seoul / Hong Kong). And the route is way above Alaska (Alaska is in the center of the picture). This is a polar route.

Shown above is another polar route from NY to Seoul.

Route above is from Toronto to Hong Kong. Is it a polar route?

Shown above is the 3D picture as though taken from the plane - some place near Pennsylvania.

Shown above the LA to Moscow route. Is is polar?

Shown above is NY to a place near China (Taipei?) - flying east.

Shown above is NY to Seoul (I think it is Seoul) - flying west. Flying north of Alaska. Polar route. Another such route (shown below) from Eastern Asia to East Coast of North America.

This is an interesting picture showing 3 flights about to enter Greenland which are from NY/Toronto to East Asia (near China). How do I know this? Because I had gone through the flight details before I took the picture. The two planes going North/Northwest at the top of the picture are going from NY/Toronto to eastern Asia but taking the western route over international date line.

The pictures above and below show two interesting polar routes. Both planes are so close to each other. One is from San Francisco to Dubai going East and the one below is from New York to Seoul going West. The pictures were taken at the same time. Surprisingly both are Airbus A380-861.

Shown above is one of the few intercontinental flights that start and terminate in the southern hemisphere. Santiago (Chile) to Auckland (New Zealand). Because of the scarcity of such flights I doubt whether there are any polar routes in the southern hemisphere (say, Chile to Australia or Argentina to South Africa flying over Antarctica).

For some reason, part of the route from Santiago to where the plane is in South Pacific is not displayed. The boarding and destination airports are shown with a blue pin, though, as usual. 

This flight is going from Delhi to Vancouver (polar route). This site was used to combine two pictures: https://www.imgonline.com.ua/eng/combine-two-images-into-one.php

Here, below, are 2 flight routes juxtaposed. One is from Doha, Qatar to LAX, going by the polar route over Greenland while the route on the right is from Dubai to SFO going by the polar route easterly over Alaska. Incidentally both the flights, at the time I was watching, were both North of Russia and were about turn "left" and "right", respectively.

The route below is from Delhi to SFO flying eastwards over Alaska. This is the first time I am seeing such a route.

This route is close to the South Pole: from Santiago to Sydney. Three pictures were merged.

Polar map:

These are images from the net.

This flight from Singapore to JFK takes 17 hours - the longest I have come across. It flies across the Pacific.

This is a LATAM airline flight from Santiago to Sydney. I have included both the Google Earth route and flightradar24 routes (the latter has 3 parts merged).

This is the Lufthansa flight from Tokyo to Frankfurt. Instead of flying west over Russia, because of the war the flight has taken the polar route, it's flying over Alaska and then down east of Greenland to Germany.