Originally Posted by zspitzer

I'm actually partial to UA90 outbound to TLV, UA85 back to EWR. UA84 departs too early for me to sleep well (not able to get to sleep until at least 5 hours into the 10 hour flight, so I end up with 3 or 4 hours of sleep) before getting into TLV around 11am and still having a lot of the day ahead of me. UA90 lets me get on the plane, have some food, get 6 or so hours of sleep, which is just enough to be running around for another 6-7 hours or so before falling asleep at midnight or 1am local time.

Then UA85 as a day flight getting into EWR around 5pm, so a nap on the plane and then try to stay up as long as you can before passing out. Which in my book beats getting into EWR at 6am with an entire day ahead of you, no matter how much you slept on the 12 hour flight home.

But to each their own