typical flight plans are filed for ~425kts, they can do upwards of 500kt if they stand on it.
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or close the little cockpit window
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Right? Firewall those throttles, every time.
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I am being sarcastic, but I also enjoy learning new things about commercial aviation.
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My understanding is that flight times are actually optimized for cost (fuel consumption), not time. So pilots usually have some room to make up time if needed.
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You can make better time if you dump the chemtrail tank below 10000 AGL. The government fines your airline, but it evens out over time.
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They just say that when there's a tailwind..
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This always sounds to me like the old "overclock your CPU" claims.
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They fly below Max speed for fuel economy.
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They were going to throw in some 1G barrel rolls. You’d never have noticed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk …
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