This is a relatively short flight in a private plane, but you might be planning to book a commercial flight. Your plane flies much faster than a car, so the flight time is about 1/2th of the time it would take to drive. The straight line flight distance is 16 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.4x of the flight distance. 'as the crow flies' which is calculated using an iterative

Shortest distance is actually the 'great circle' distance, or

Because of the curvature of the Earth, the Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in theįastest possible straight line between Borrego Springs, California and