Anyone have a Delta Flight leaving this year and landing Next?
Dec 29, 2017, 3:55 pm
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Is there any flight that leaves NEXT year and arrives THIS year? Those Asia to US flights arrive before you leave but I think on the same day
Dec 29, 2017, 4:22 pm
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Get a window seat for fireworks!
OT to DL, but the easiest flight, I believe, to celebrate NYE twice would be FGI-PPG, arrives ~24.5 hours before it departed.
OT to DL, but the easiest flight, I believe, to celebrate NYE twice would be FGI-PPG, arrives ~24.5 hours before it departed.
Last edited by CPMaverick; Dec 29, 2017 at 4:29 pm
Dec 29, 2017, 4:22 pm
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No sadly no miracle on this flight. Lots of elderly take this flight, you should see the line of 20 to 30 wheelchairs this flight sometimes has. @SDQBound can attest to this
But normally the 7pm flight is wheelchair light.
But normally the 7pm flight is wheelchair light.
I've been flying a lot ATL-SDQ-ATL lately. Last Tuesday there were about 20 wheelchairs on the SDQ-ATL flight, took over 10 minutes to complete the pre-boarding. This morning I was surprised that there were less than 5.
Dec 29, 2017, 5:12 pm
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The old departure times of SEA-HND and LAX-HND departed just after midnight and arrived in the evening of the previous day. IIRC, there used to be a late NRT-HNL that did the same but that doesn't seem to be on the schedule either.
Dec 30, 2017, 5:32 am
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If it still operates the Auklund-HNL flight leaves New Zealand at night and arrives in Honolulu the night before. United never could figure out how to properly book connections to their red eye bank because it's the day before the original flight.
Dec 31, 2017, 2:10 am
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I'll be doing this JNB-LHR tonight. Sadly not on VS, but BA (even in F I can't get excited about flying them).
Dec 31, 2017, 5:05 am
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Any flight from Apia, Samoa, to Pago Pago, American Samoa, would fall into that category. While only 100 or so miles separates the two islands, the international dateline falls between them. I believe American Samoa is the last inhabited place on our side of the dateline.
Dec 31, 2017, 5:08 am
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I've flown from Guam-Tokyo-Honolulu before, leaving Guam mid-afternoon Sunday, landing in Tokyo in the evening, departing Tokyo on Sunday night, and landing in Honolulu at daybreak Sunday. It's kind of weird, but cool.
Dec 31, 2017, 5:09 am
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Sounds like one of those problems best solved over a glass of port.
Dec 31, 2017, 12:03 pm
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Hawaiian Air flight en route now, departed Auckland at 0005 on Jan 1, 2018, will arrive in HNL at 1016 on December 31, 2017. Time machines exist.
Jan 15, 2018, 11:22 am
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Yeah, we arrived this year instead of last. But because of the time change, people still thought it was last year when we landed. When they realized it was the new year at baggage claim some dudes bought liquor from the duty-free and we all had a drink.
BTW I love SDQ the duty free at baggage claim is awesome
BTW I love SDQ the duty free at baggage claim is awesome