Originally Posted by
DELee
. As an example, I'll take the ~4 PM Pacific LAX-IAD non-stop and get in around midnight Eastern. Between the 4 PM and the red eye flights starting around 9 PM Pacific, there's nothing on UA.
I personally would consider getting into the East Coast after midnight if UA offered a 5 or 6 PM (or later that's still not a red eye) but they don't..
David
Different strokes and all that, but arriving midnight onward in DC is effectively a red eye for me. By the time you get from C/D at IAD into your rental car and then drive 30-45 minutes to a beltway hotel, check in and get settled, it’s after 2am. The 4-5 hours sleep I get from there (if I’m lucky) is as crappy as red eye plane sleep.
You can count me as one of the people who takes the earlier flights. I just work on the plane.
Getting to SFO early is a lot easier if you have to cross a bridge, too.