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Originally Posted by Mr. Vker
(Post 10025282)
I found one. Its a short flight across one time zone, so it doesn't involve several zones.
LAS-LAX during standard time. SWA puts it as 1 hour gate to gate (but no elapsed time), so you must land before take off. |
Originally Posted by Mr. Vker
(Post 10025222)
I think the OP is looking for WESTBOUND flights that land before taking off.
I cannot think of any-only eastbound. |
China Southern flight from Urumqi to Almaty, Kazakhstan leaves at 18:40 and arrives at 18:20, with a flight time of 1:40, so this spans two timezones. Do I get a prize? ;)
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Also, Aeroflot-Nord offers a flight from Murmansk, Russia to Tromso, Norway that takes two hours and arrives at the same time as it departs. :D
Chris |
Man, I'm on a roll now. Wideroe Airlines flies from Murmansk, Russia to Kirkenes, Norway, departing at 16:35 and arriving at 15:20, for a 45 minute flight, changing two time zones.
Chris |
Saved the best for last. China Southern flies from Vladivostok, Russia to Harbin, China in 1 hour, surpassing 3 time zones.
Depart: 20:30 Arrive: 18:30 And I retire.:D Chris |
Originally Posted by Pat89339
(Post 10025470)
:confused: LAS (Las Vegas, Nevada) and LAX (Los Angeles, California) are both in the same time zone--Pacific.
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Another one, LXA (Lhasa) - KTM (Kathmandu) depart 11:00, arrives 10:00 travelling from GMT+8 to GMT+5:45 with a flight time of 1:15.
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UA 7217 leaves South Bend (SBN) at 5:35A, arrives in ORD at 5:20.
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Along those lines, I recall reading about the FA who was trying to explain to a naive passenger how it was possible to arrive before you leave. The FA patiently explained about time zones and the rotation of the earth, however the passenger just wasn't getting it. Finally, the FA said, "we go really fast!" The passenger said, "oh," and returned to combing through the Skymall catalogue for "must haves." :)
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Originally Posted by PTravel
(Post 10028235)
The FA patiently explained about time zones and the rotation of the earth, however the passenger just wasn't getting it.
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CX836 HKG-YVR. Departs HKG around midnight and then arrives YVR the evening on the day before departure.
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Pretty much any flight from the western pacific and Asia to HNL does this.
ICN-ORD comes close -- depending on time of year, the flight only takes about 40 minutes!:D |
I did the SIN-LAX on stop on SQ in 2006.. departed a bit late like 5:00PM and arrived early at 3:45 the same day
Also I think we had a serious tail wind too.. also remember pretty strong turbulance over Japan- to the point it woke me up and being from CA i thought it was an earthquake ..woke up all confused and searching for my desk to get under then realized where I was.. and went back to sleep and enjoyed the movement |
Originally Posted by L Dude 7
(Post 10025160)
What scheduled flights arrive at a time before they depart (via the magic of time change.)
I can think of some like SBN-ORD that do it by flying a short distance across a time zone boundary. Then there are plenty of Eastbound flights that cross the international dateline. Are there any westbound flights that cross multiple time zones to arrive 'before' departure? A westbound flight couldn't do it unless it was pretty close to a pole. |
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