Originally Posted by Flying Yazata

Scenarios like that are best avoided, since indeed any brief NYC layovers with less than 7-8 hours layover or landside time are quite a waste of money (or loyalty points). I personally use either different timings or routings to avoid such overnight layovers, whenever possible. Any more price smart accommodation options are further away from JFK, so you end up anyway using 1-2 hrs on transit. To me, any JFK-JFK overnight transit needs 10-12 hrs at a minimum, but I'm also happy to do transits between airports in NYC, since I anyway move on the landside for a hotel. In fact, the same logic also applies to me and LON in many cases.

Originally Posted by xenole

I did have a 11am or so departure on one of my flights, but AA changed it to 7am for some reason.

I've got a SOF run over the summer. At present, a 9:50pm arrival into JFK and a 7:07am departure (usually all the blinds are down and people sleep most of this flight anyway).
If things go well, I could be at a hotel for 11pm, and then catch a 5am shuttle to the airport.
Not great timings, but 5hrs in a comfy bed is better than a hard chair, and I'll think of the tier points. No worse than people paying 3k for an East Coast CW flight to get 4hrs sleep compared to £400 in Y for thr 6hr flight.

Got a normal domestic flight arriving into SFO just before midnight coming up. There's a 5:30am flight for £142 that earns me 80TP to get to my destination before lunch.

Originally Posted by xenole

I did have a 11am or so departure on one of my flights, but AA changed it to 7am for some reason.

I've got a SOF run over the summer. At present, a 9:50pm arrival into JFK and a 7:07am departure (usually all the blinds are down and people sleep most of this flight anyway).
If things go well, I could be at a hotel for 11pm, and then catch a 5am shuttle to the airport.
Not great timings, but 5hrs in a comfy bed is better than a hard chair, and I'll think of the tier points. No worse than people paying 3k for an East Coast CW flight to get 4hrs sleep compared to £400 in Y for thr 6hr flight.

Got a normal domestic flight arriving into SFO just before midnight coming up. There's a 5:30am flight for £142 that earns me 80TP to get to my destination before lunch.

Originally Posted by Lefly

No option to change it back?
Personally, I did the short night layover multiple times, but now I really prefer to have at least 8h between evening and morning flights...

Originally Posted by Lefly

No option to change it back?
Personally, I did the short night layover multiple times, but now I really prefer to have at least 8h between evening and morning flights...

Originally Posted by gcuk

I’ve arrived into JFK on the late flight a few times, connecting onto the west coast early the next morning.

The first couple of times I booked a hotel but by the time I’d got there and checked in it was about 5am in the UK, and I had to leave to get back to the airport in about 4 hours so for $200 it seemed a bit of a waste.

I now make a point of getting 4 or 5 hours sleep on the flight to JFK (the second meal really isn’t worth bothering about), staying in the airport terminals and then heading for the lounge as it opens. The JetBlue terminal I think had a coffee bar open all night and so did the Delta terminal. The inter terminal train also ran all night so a couple of excursions on that to the other terminals, and with a good book or a loaded iPad, the time passed quite quickly.

There were people doing similar in each terminal, so I didn’t feel unsafe at any point.

Originally Posted by techflyerlondon

Thank you for sharing your experience, glad it's possible and those little tips around heading to JetBlue terminal!! Hopefully we don't need to mess with our checked luggage right?

Originally Posted by xenole

If you're flying into the US from the UK, you'll have to collect your luggage after immigration as it will be your first point of entry into the US. Not sure if you could re-check it that night for the next morning flight?
One reason why these short overnights aren't great if you have bags. The less luggage to trail around, the better.

Originally Posted by EDIwanderer

Slightly OT, but if I’m starting my run from DUB direct to US with pre-clearance, would my bag go through to final destination without me having to recheck at my first stop?

Originally Posted by Rex Kramer

Also will the TP's be posted in time to go Gold pre May 08th?

Originally Posted by Rex Kramer

Hi all

First post from a long time observer. Can't post URL's or images just yet. Had some great deals and tips from you guys, keep up the great work!

I have the opportunity of a TP run from April 22-25 DUS-LHR-EZE (I'm positioned Ex-Eu and DUS is very handy for this) bookable through the Iberia website, where the flights are operated by BA . This should be 400 points from Business by my calculation?

I only need 325 to get to Gold and my timeframe is limited work/corona wise and as my year ends May too. I'm aware of the costs and this may not be comparable to one planned well in advance but Business is a preferred seat for me. (I used to be an adventurer but took an arrow to the knee)

Also will the TP's be posted in time to go Gold pre May 08th?

Originally Posted by Spock77

Hello. I need a bit of advice, please. I am booked to go to LAS at the beginning of April, flying DUB-LHR-LAX-LAS. I am due to arrive in DUB on my return trip at 14:40. When I booked my positioning flight, I got a bit gung-ho about the return trip and have booked onto the 15:20 departure from DUB (back to LHR). My logic at the time was that 40 mins should be plenty of time for a transfer with hand luggage only, but it only occurred to me later that it could be a problem since the return positioning flight is a separate ticket. My concern is that if I miss the connection in DUB they will make me buy a new ticket, which could be expensive. Do you think I need to book onto a later flight?