My brother left for Bangkok (via Hong Kong) on a Cathay Pacific flight the other day. Before he left, we had a discussion as to which way the aircraft would fly from Toronto to get to Hong Kong.

We were both arguing either west bound or east bound. We were both wrong!

I was tracking the flight on Flight Aware and saw their planned routing. Right over the North Pole!

V34 YEE J557 YSB 5000N 07952W YGL 5500N 07656W 6000N 07400W 6500N 07200W 7000N 06900W MEDPA 8000N 06000W 8500N 04000W ABERI B934 BINTA …