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Originally Posted by DaveR
Ignoring the time zone shift it is normally much quicker West to East and this is mostly the jetstream.
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1980 and flying Perth -> Sydney the midnight special left Perth about 01:00 WST after sitting on the tarmac for about half an hour, throttled back to idle over Broken Hill, and still hit Sydney before the 06:00 EST curfew.
That's a jet stream.
FYI, it's a hour faster direct Sydney->San Francisco than SF->Sydney. Also it's faster to SF than LA.