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Old Dec 8, 2023 | 9:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Steve M
What about the other way around? Consider CO 2 GUM-HNL: it departs Guam at 6:40am on Jan 1, and arrives in Honolulu at 5:50pm on Dec 31. If you really wanted a big headache, you could party it up on NYE in Guam, leave for the airport around 3 or 4am, maybe get 6 hours of sleep on 7hr10min flight, then arrive in Hawaii just in time to do NYE all over again.
Even better... Fiji Airways has a direct Kiritimati to Honolulu flight that leaves at 7:30AM and arrives 10:30AM the day prior with no time zone change other than crossing the date line.

Unfortunately it only operates on Wednesdays so not an option this year.
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