No. That is a long told myth. There is a large hole in the middle of the Pacific that you have to circumnavigate if you are only authorized 180 minute ETOPS. If you have 300+ minute ETOPS like some 330's and 777's, that hole shrinks down to near insignifigance. Unfortunately none of our 777's have that authorization. Hence the trouble our 777's have flying to SYD.

I believe the mid and south Atlantic has a similar hole. You can do it with 180 minute ETOPS, but you fly a longer and inefficient circuitous route.

The EWR girls call flying to Dublin a and Scotland a "crossing". SFO and LAX are longer from EWR. But hey, they are overwater and ETOPS. Thank god they are in a real airplane like a 757, if they were in a guppy they would be running the APU the whole time.

Flamesuit on. LOL