LA500 distance and great-circle path
LA500 covers 6,658 km, or 4,137 miles. That makes it a long-haul flight, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Of the 439 routes we track, it ranks 171 by distance.
The plane leaves Santiago heading north. 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 SCL-MIA route appears on a tracker map.
Why LA500 block time differs from cruise time
The schedule allows 8.5 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 783 km/h. A Boeing 787-9 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 timing changes the trip in our red-eye flight guide.
Can the Boeing 787-9 comfortably fly LA500?
Not at all. At roughly 48% of its range, this is an easy trip for a Boeing 787-9. The airline picked it for cabin size, not distance. The full numbers are on our aircraft page for the Boeing 787-9.
What to know about LA500
- Time change: you land 1 hour behind the time you left.
- Crosses the equator: you swap seasons between takeoff and landing.