Its all about relative motion and being part of the earth atmosphere system, the plane is matched in speed with the earth. its the same reason we dont fly away when we jump up.
Think of a plane heading 360' due North. You are flying relative to the earth's and it's atmosphere's rotation, as @WTDoor said.
If the planet's surface was spinning away under you at 1675 Kph, you would instead end up going WEST instead of North.
Or if this was the case, if you jumped, airborne 0.5 sec, you would land about 232 m to the West:
232.6388889 m/0.5 sec
Sun rises in East.
So planet's surface moving Eastwards.>>>
A FIXED point ABOVE (outside the atmosphere) will APPEAR to be moving WEST<<<.
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