CM801 distance and great-circle path
CM801 covers 5,351 km, or 3,325 miles. That makes it a long-haul flight, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Of the 255 routes we track, it ranks 161 by distance.
The plane leaves Panama City heading south-east. On the map above, the line looks curved. That is normal. The shortest path over a round planet never looks straight on a flat screen. Our guide explains how the PTY–EZE route appears on a tracker map.
Why CM801 block time differs from cruise time
The schedule allows 6.8 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 783 km/h. A Boeing 737 MAX 9 cruises faster than that. The gap is taxi time, climbing, descending and holding.
Winds aloft shift the real flight time by up to an hour in either direction. See how high-altitude winds behave in our guide to turbulence and jet streams.
What to know about CM801
- Time change: you land 2 hours ahead of the time you left.
- Crosses the equator: you swap seasons between takeoff and landing.