JL62 LAX → HND

JL62 distance and great-circle path

JL62 covers 8,813 km, or 5,476 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 94 by distance.

The plane leaves Los Angeles heading north-west. 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 LAX–HND route appears on a tracker map.

Why JL62 block time differs from cruise time

The schedule allows 11.8 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 745 km/h. A Boeing 787-9 cruises faster than that. The gap is taxi time, climbing, descending and holding.

Flying west, this route pushes against the wind. The trip back east is usually shorter, even though the distance is the same. See how timing changes the trip in our red-eye flight guide.

What to know about JL62

• Time change: you land 16 hours ahead of the time you left. That is enough to cause jet lag. Here is how pilots handle it.
• Crosses the date line: the calendar date changes while you are in the air.

We track 2 scheduled services between Los Angeles and Tokyo, split between All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines. Among them, it is the last departure of the day on this route; it is scheduled quicker than anything else on the pairing; it is the only one flown with a Boeing 787-9.

Measured against JL62, which pushes back at 13:30:

• NH106 (All Nippon Airways) leaves 12 hours 40 minutes earlier and is scheduled 10 minutes slower, on a Boeing 787-10.

Block time is gate to gate, so it counts taxi at both ends. That is why two flights covering identical distance rarely share a scheduled duration.