Originally Posted by
Stormbel
Hi guys
This may be a weird question but here goes ..
I am thinking of booking to fly from a SE Asian airport back to the UK in April but can't decide whether what class to book, i.e. whether it's worth having a lie-flat bed and bigger seat.
One possibility is flying mid morning (11am-ish) which would get me to London about 5pm.
Can any clever person tell me how much of the flight might be in daylight? I can't think of an easy formula (speed of the aircraft as against the rotation of the earth and all that) but my gut feeling is there wouldn't be much darkness.
If I flew in Premium Economy and it was a mainly daylight, AND my body is still in what it *believes* is daytime I probably wouldn't sleep anyway.
Thanks
Hi,
Which part of SE Asia? I assume it will probably take a southern route to avoid russian airspace so you should get virtually all daylight.
Coming back from Japan pre ukraine confilict we went north over siberia and had some dusk periods. In November 2022 coming back from Tokyo on Lufthansa we flew east ( over alaska , greenland) and it got dark about 2hrs after take off ( though April will have shorter night periods)
Regardless , the bigger seat and lie flat seat would be worth it for that length of flight.
Regards
TBS