Its all over the internet now. Article in Wired is a mixture of truth and hyperbole:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jet-...nger-jet-speed
This trick goes back to some of the historic flights in air travel history. The Spirit of St. Louis, the first flight taken across the atlantic, went from West to East, the direction jet streams predominantly blow.
Edit: I bet Charles Lindbergh would be pleased to know that he flew at jet stream altitudes in an unpressurised aircraft, and Alcock and Brown would be rather shocked that they were not the first(*) to fly across the Atlantic.
Edit: * non-stop