LA705 distance and great-circle path
LA705 covers 10,720 km, or 6,661 miles. That makes it an ultra-long-haul flight, near the limit of what most twinjets can fly non-stop. Of the 255 routes we track, it ranks 51 by distance.
The plane leaves Santiago heading north-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 SCL–MAD route appears on a tracker map.
Why LA705 block time differs from cruise time
The schedule allows 12.5 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 858 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.
What to know about LA705
- Time change: you land 6 hours ahead of the time you left. That is enough to cause jet lag. Here is how pilots handle it.
- Crosses the equator: you swap seasons between takeoff and landing.
- Flies far north: the real path runs much closer to the pole than a flat map suggests.