The last flight out from NYC
Jan 30, 2019, 3:07 am
#16
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Jet lag is a very individual experience and different people need different approaches. But for me the 3 sets of day flights (BOS and AA's ORD services being the other) avoid feeling groggy with no special advance measures needed, straight to bed on arrival in the UK and the slate is cleared with that. Overnight services I need to do things like wake up early in the USA and eat at particular times to head off difficulties. It's important not go into REM sleep during the day flight, a light nap should be OK. I think I've read a lot of reports from other travellers here that the day JFK service helps them too. As a business traveller the advent of wifi (and usually a backlog of emails with or without wifi) means that a day time flight is useful time.
Jan 30, 2019, 3:30 am
#17
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with the introduction of on-board Wi-Fi, the day flight is quite appealing: the night flights from JFK/BOS are so short you really only get (at best) 5 hours of sleep, on top of jet lag - the day flight you can get some work done, have a nap for an hour or two and arrive in the UK ready for bedtime; if it's been a short trip to the US, the early morning departure from JFK is no problem since I'll have been awake from about 5am anyway
the advent of on-board Wi-Fi makes the day flight less of a 'wasted' day and avoids the problem of landing back in London on a Friday night with a day's worth of unread emails!
the advent of on-board Wi-Fi makes the day flight less of a 'wasted' day and avoids the problem of landing back in London on a Friday night with a day's worth of unread emails!
Jan 30, 2019, 3:34 am
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Jan 31, 2019, 4:48 am
#20
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I was indeed. So they're basically renovating during the day, and opening it for the evening departures? Assume parts of it are closed up in that case?
Jan 31, 2019, 4:52 am
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Last week I took the day flight, overnighted in London and took the morning flight to TLV. I suffered zero jet-lag on my return.