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Lisbon

A flight is drawn as a great circle, not a straight line on a flat map.

Date
May 19, 2025

Lisbon

The first leg with a transport mode, and the first that has to decide what a line between two points means.

A flight is drawn as a great circle β€” the actual shortest path over a sphere β€” which on a flattened projection looks like a curve rather than the straight line most maps draw. The straight version is not a simplification, it is wrong: it depicts a route no aircraft would take and understates the distance.