If you post a flight experience, the next question will be were they in a jet stream, how fast was the wind, how does the plane know how fast it is moving in a moving wind stream, etc. Unless you come to the discussion prepared with demonstrative answers, you haven't shown anything and don't know where you live at all.
There is a lot to demonstrate here. At present, I will not believe a single word you say until your claims are demonstrated.
Let's do this one claim at a time. Conveniently this morning (around 10.00 UTC March 25) there are 5 Boeing 787s over the South Pacific:
LAN800, Aukland - Santiago.
QFA27, Sydney - Santiago.
LAN804, Melbourne - Santiago.
LAN809, Santiago - Sydney.
LAN805, Santiago - Melbourne.
That's 5 Dreamliners; 3 eastbound, 2 westbound. Operated respectively by Latam and Qantas, the national flagcarriers of Chile and Australia. Both regulated by their respective national airworthiness regulators which, like the FAA, are operating in accordance with ICAO regulations governing the safe passage of international aircraft as required by the Chicago Convention. All 5 crews know when they took off, think they know what route they are flying, and are making predictions of their ETA. Here's the questions;
Are they all in jetstreams; easterly and westerly, when west-flowing jetstreams are almost unknown?
How did they know where the contraflowing jetstreams would be? Can you demonstrate?
How did they calculate how much fuel to carry, when the ground-distances were unknown and the winds anomalous?
Are their crews unaware of their positions, true airspeeds, groundspeeds? If so, shouldn't we tell the authorities?
Or are they not actually flying at all? Flights get cancelled all the time, apparently.
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