Originally Posted by
bmwe92fan
... - and I also much prefer a longer red-eye (ORD-ZRH vs IAD-GVA) and 5 hours in IAD -- even at the PL -- is a LONG time to sit... .
A key point. My recent experience with United has been that your potential sleep time tends to be 2-3 hours less than the blocked flight time, because they keep you awake with superfluous announcements -- or they leave the gate late and make it up in the air. So IAD-GVA, you'll get 5 hours if you're lucky.