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Old Feb 10, 2012 | 7:58 am
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Originally Posted by pdxasflyer
I'm traveling to HKG then onward to JNB. The first leg is an all daylight flight and the second one will be all nighttime. My thinking is that it would be best to stay up as long as possible for the first leg, such that once we board the next leg, we'll be really ready to sleep on our overnight flight to JNB. Does that make sense or is there a better logic I'm missing?
Yea it's good logic. Try to stick to the timezone you land in when you take off.

Personally, I think it's far easier heading US-HKG than it is HKG-US.
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