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People who’ve never flown it have no idea how vast the Pacific Ocean is,” Kiwi Robin Leach told B&CA. “You will be over water for 12 hours jetting from Auckland to San Francisco. Going the other way [i.e., west], headwinds can be a factor, and today [in mid-January] the jetstream is running south...
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