[max americana]

Yup. 12-14 hours flight to Asia (Philippines, Hong Kong etc) from North America and underneath, all water.

[ASA Vet]

In 2007 I flew from Detroit nonstop to Hong Kong. The flt path took us within 200 mile of the north pole, then south over Russia, Mongolia, and China. 15 1/2 hours flight time.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

LAX to Taipei or Seoul, S. Korea are about the same time: 14 hours. Coming back from Korea, our 747 was doing 550 MPH with a 196-210 MPH tail wind. We caught the jet stream and our ground speed was 750 MPH. I was telling people that, relative to the ground, we were going over Mach 1. The return trip was “only” 10 hours. Pretty nice, I’m always happy to shave 4 hours off that flight. 14 hours in a plane is just ghastly. It’s hard to describe the great feeling of coming back through American Customs.