TP285 distance and great-circle path
TP285 covers 5,780 km, or 3,591 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 200 by distance.
The plane leaves Lisbon 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 LIS-LAD route appears on a tracker map.
Why TP285 block time differs from cruise time
The schedule allows 7.8 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 746 km/h. An Airbus A330-900 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 Airbus A330-900 comfortably fly TP285?
Not at all. At roughly 43% of its range, this is an easy trip for an Airbus A330-900. The airline picked it for cabin size, not distance. The full numbers are on our aircraft page for the Airbus A330-900.
What to know about TP285
- Time change: you land 1 hour ahead of the time you left.
- Crosses the equator: you swap seasons between takeoff and landing.