The colder it gets, the faster they fly. Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but ...

The jet stream has been pushing airliners across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at high speed, with some west-to-east ...

When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes ...

At least two flights briefly traveled faster than the speed of sound as the jet stream sped up, but there would not have been ...

An unusually strong jet stream over the Atlantic bringing Storm Eowyn to the UK and Ireland is so powerful it pushed a flight ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

The fastest recorded ground speed reached by a transatlantic flight was 835mph, which was hit by a commercial aircraft going ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

Natural forces also play a role, and powerful jet streams can sometimes help flights move much quicker than expected. On ...

An unusually strong jet stream pushed the British Airways flight to 814 miles per hour nearly breaking the subsonic speed ...

Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with ...

A strong band of jet stream winds overhead brought light snowfall to the Denver area Saturday. A Weather Impact Day was ...