Arrive before you leave
Jul 13, 2008 | 3:22 am
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LAS (Las Vegas, Nevada) and LAX (Los Angeles, California) are both in the same time zone--Pacific.
Jul 13, 2008 | 4:05 am
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I once flew NAN-HNL only to find out on arrival that my hotelroom reservation was for the next day. I had left on saturdaynight and arrived on saturday morning...
Jul 13, 2008 | 10:39 am
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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.
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Jul 13, 2008 | 10:51 am
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Jul 13, 2008 | 11:11 am
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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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Jul 13, 2008 | 5:44 pm
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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." 
Jul 13, 2008 | 5:53 pm
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Jul 14, 2008 | 3:58 pm
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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
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
Jul 14, 2008 | 4:31 pm
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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?
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.