Longest Flight You’ve Done In One Time Zone?
Jul 26, 2022, 9:03 am
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Longest Flight You’ve Done In One Time Zone?
What’s the longest flight you’ve done without changing time zones?
For me it is Aruba-IAD at about 1870 miles. (They are in the same time zone during EDT. ) I’m sure some FlyerTalkers will have much longer flights.
Being based in LA, there aren’t a lot of long north/south flights available. Nothing farther than Cabo to the south and western Canada to the north.
For me it is Aruba-IAD at about 1870 miles. (They are in the same time zone during EDT. ) I’m sure some FlyerTalkers will have much longer flights.
Being based in LA, there aren’t a lot of long north/south flights available. Nothing farther than Cabo to the south and western Canada to the north.
Jul 26, 2022, 9:58 am
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What’s the longest flight you’ve done without changing time zones?
For me it is Aruba-IAD at about 1870 miles. (They are in the same time zone during EDT. ) I’m sure some FlyerTalkers will have much longer flights.
Being based in LA, there aren’t a lot of long north/south flights available. Nothing farther than Cabo to the south and western Canada to the north.
For me it is Aruba-IAD at about 1870 miles. (They are in the same time zone during EDT. ) I’m sure some FlyerTalkers will have much longer flights.
Being based in LA, there aren’t a lot of long north/south flights available. Nothing farther than Cabo to the south and western Canada to the north.
Jul 26, 2022, 11:49 am
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Jul 26, 2022, 2:31 pm
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Jul 26, 2022, 7:38 pm
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The theoretically longest ones would have to be:
North America - South America (e.g. JFK-SCL). It gets tricky though, depending on summer/winter and who has their clock forward/back.
Europe - South Africa (e.g. LON/FRA-CPT/JNB)
You'd think that within China you'd have long flights, but the longest you can get is something like URC-SYX,HRB-SYX,URC-XMN - all of them are about 2100-2200 miles, shorter than, say, LON-LOS, which is in the same time zone during summer.
If there was a PEK-PER it would also be up there...
North America - South America (e.g. JFK-SCL). It gets tricky though, depending on summer/winter and who has their clock forward/back.
Europe - South Africa (e.g. LON/FRA-CPT/JNB)
You'd think that within China you'd have long flights, but the longest you can get is something like URC-SYX,HRB-SYX,URC-XMN - all of them are about 2100-2200 miles, shorter than, say, LON-LOS, which is in the same time zone during summer.
If there was a PEK-PER it would also be up there...
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Jul 26, 2022, 9:18 pm
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Most Europe-South Africa commercial flight routes would pass more than one time zone to get between the European and the South African airports.
Maybe Montreal-Lima stays entirely within one time zone at times?
Has there been a Shanghai-Perth flight?
JFK-SCL — even when it’s when the times are the same both at the origin and destination — would typically cross more than one time zone IIRC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time..._Zones_Map.png
Maybe Montreal-Lima stays entirely within one time zone at times?
Has there been a Shanghai-Perth flight?
JFK-SCL — even when it’s when the times are the same both at the origin and destination — would typically cross more than one time zone IIRC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time..._Zones_Map.png
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Jul 26, 2022, 11:20 pm
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Most Europe-South Africa commercial flight routes would pass more than one time zone to get between the European and the South African airports.
Maybe Montreal-Lima stays entirely within one time zone at times?
Has there been a Shanghai-Perth flight?
JFK-SCL — even when it’s when the times are the same both at the origin and destination — would typically cross more than one time zone IIRC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time..._Zones_Map.png
Maybe Montreal-Lima stays entirely within one time zone at times?
Has there been a Shanghai-Perth flight?
JFK-SCL — even when it’s when the times are the same both at the origin and destination — would typically cross more than one time zone IIRC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time..._Zones_Map.png
Any flights to SCL would fly over a different time zone. Same issue going to Africa.
Jul 26, 2022, 11:33 pm
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YUL-LIM (or YYZ-LIM) would be a good deal longer than YYZ to POS and other islands within the same time zone. That’s with YUL-LIM having been done without crossing Venezuelan and Brazilian territory.
Jul 27, 2022, 12:09 am
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That should work in theory, but only in Oct-Mar (no DST in the northern hemisphere) and assuming you avoid the Cuban airspace - which this the flights to LIM usually pass over.
Jul 27, 2022, 12:36 am
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Any reason why there would be a need for YUL-LIM to avoid Cuban airspace in order to remain in the same time zone during October-March? I thought Cuba have DST a week or so off on one or both ends from the US East Coast.
