British Airways makes a record flight, crosses Atlantic in less than 5 hours

For the first time in years, a commercial passenger plane has flown across the Atlantic in less than five hours.

A British Airways flight landed early Sunday morning at Heathrow Airport in London in the wake of leaving John F. Kennedy Internatioslowerrt in New York only four hours and 5aeroplanes sooner.

That set another speed record for subsonic — or more slow than the speed of sound — business airplane to fly between the two urban communities, as per Flightradar24, which tracks worldwide flights.

The past record was held by a Norwegian Air flight, which flew between the two urban communities with a flistandardme of five hours and 13 minutes.

The flight had been relied upon to take 102 minutes longer. The ongoing normal flight time between New York and London is 6 hours and 13 minutes, as indicated by Flightradar24.

The breeze and air flows were perfect for a quiet, said Ian Petchenik, Flightradar24's chief of correspondences.

"In the winter, the fly stream plunges down a piece," he said. "It's sort of in an ideal spot for flights over the North Atlantic to exploit it." British Airways just barely beat out a Virgin Atlantic flight, which landed in London at around a similar tiorganisationnorganisesmore slow.

English Airways affirmed the flight time for the Boeing 747 plane, saying the organization organizes wellbeing over speed.

The supersonic Concorde flights used to fly over the Atlantic in a little more than three hours, yet quit flying in 2003.