Originally Posted by
flyvirgin
(Can't call red-eyed as flight departed after mid-night and arrived early morning in PEK with approx 12-13 hours of darkness in the air!!)
Around this time of the year (summer solstice), CA984 is more daylight than darkness. The sun rises at around 0530 PDT from LAX all the way to Nome, so darkness is only during the first 3.5 hours.
I flew LAX-PEK a couple weeks ago and had an L seat (right window) and had the sun right outside the window (north) over Alaska and Siberia. The sun actually "set" in the east as the plane dived down to lower latitude in the later hours.