Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I always like to have the longer nonstop flights on TATL/TPAC in order to get dinner and a good night's sleep before it's time to wake up for breakfast and landing in business class. In addition, I hate arriving in Europe at the crack of dawn when you won't have access to your hotel room for many, many hours (and I'm usually too cheap to book the extra night to guarantee use of the room for just a couple extra hours).
I'm the reverse. On a TATL I'd rather pay the extra night and fly in Y than fly J only to loiter around a foreign city with my luggage for hours until I get get into my hotel room.
My upper limit for Y is 8 hours but I don't mind longer trips if spit into two shorter flights. It also depends what I'm doing when I arrive. Y is easier to tolerate if I don't have business obligations upon arrival and my hotel room is waiting.