Sadly, we're still a ways away from supersonic planes whisking us across the Atlantic Ocean in a little more than three hours. But that doesn't mean we can't celebrate the small stuff, like when some favorable atmospheric conditions make a plane go just a little faster than it's built to go. On Monday, Norwegian Air, helped along by a strong jet stream conveniently located right along its route from New York-JFK to London-Gatwick, broke the record for fastest transatlantic flight in a subsonic plane (that is, not a sound-barrier-breaking Concorde).

Clocking in at just five hours and thirteen minutes from takeoff to touchdown, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner reached a top speed of 776 miles per hour, getting an extra boost from winds that topped 200 miles an hour. In a prime brush-the-shoulder-off moment, Captain Harold van Dam said that the flight could have been even quicker if he hadn't hit some minor turbulence along the way, The Telegraph reports. Flight 7014 beat the previous record, set by British Airways back in January 2015, by three minutes, and landed more than an hour before its scheduled arrival time—and it didn't even have to taxi for hours before finding a gate to park in (yes, we're still mad about that, JFK).

Jet streams, air currents that form at high altitudes, are often a pilot's and an airline's best friend: By slipping into the currents that, even on bad days, can blow at 80 to 100 miles per hour, flight time is cut and fuel (and therefore money) is saved. Jet stream patterns are why it's faster to fly east than west, and in the winter the effect is magnified. Monday's jet stream was just particularly quick.

Of course, fliers wouldn't have noticed the faster speeds until they were told how fast they were zooming over the ocean—or if they were someone who pays extra close attention to flight maps. But for those who forgot Norwegian's no-frills approach to in-flight amenities, they were likely thankful to be on the ground sooner rather than later.