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Originally Posted by ChiSoxRox
That's the effect of Boston being so much farther east. The Boston-Madagascar line crosses the equator at a much steeper angle than Miami-Madagascar, meaning the distance you save on longitude (especially over the equatorial bulge) more than makes up for the greater latitudinal distance.
Along a similar line, two US airports had (pre-Covid) direct flights to Johannesburg: JFK and Atlanta. Atlanta is the longer flight, by over 400 miles.
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And Sydney to Dallas is a longer flight than Sydney to NYC (according to that thread about the longest nonstop flights in the world).