Flight to Beijing

[Wyler]

I am flying to Beijing, from the UK, later in the year and was surprised to see that the flight time is less than 10 hours. Having flown to Malaysia on numerous occasions I was expecting 12 to 14 hours.
I am assuming this has to do with routing. Anyone shed any light on this?

[Johnny F@rt Pants]

Malaysia is considerably further than Beijing.

[Sultan Ismail]

Great Circle

Check out Great Circles, amazingly the World is not flat, SIN and KUL are a long way round the other side, and PER is not much further.

[wiggy]

Have a play with this website:

Great Circle Mapper

Have a look at LHR-PEK

And

LHR-KUL

[Wyler]

Yep, flat map syndrome......

Thanks