Arrive before you leave
 

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?

When I flew from Seoul many moons ago I landed before I departed.

Some of the flights from Auckland and Sydney land the day before they depart. TN's SYD-PPT and AKL-PPT services and NZ's AKL-APW (DJ's SYD-APW leaves late enough from SYD to arrive at 1:20 a.m. the same day into APW) flights come to mind, but there are others to Pacific islands. The former AC SYD-HNL flight also landed the day before it departed.

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I've done Hong Kong/LA and Beijing/LA a number of times where we've arrived before we left.

I think the OP is looking for WESTBOUND flights that land before taking off.

I cannot think of any-only eastbound.

The westbound flights you ask about would have to be far enough north or south on the earth so that timezones are less than a jet can fly in an hour (and the the jetstream would likely make it worse!). I tried Greenland and in an admittedly inexhaustive effort, couldn't find anything. Anyone else got any other ideas?

No, but I saw Ann Curry on the Today Show run around the South Pole earlier this year. All 24 zones in about 5 seconds, so I get the idea.

Maybe not what you had in mind, but I've done DTW-ORD and arrived a few minutes before departure. :)

I found one. Its a short flight across one time zone, so it doesn't involve several zones.

phx-las during standard time. SWA puts it as 1 hour gate to gate (but no elapsed time), so you must land before take off.

I tend to drive it instead of fly it, but flights from Atlanta to Birmingham arrives in under an hour, with a time zone change in there.

Taipei SFO 14 hrs on the plane and you get there before you left

Also AKL-PPT works fine !!

AY 641
1 August
HEL 13:30
ARN 13:25



SK 733
1 August
LED 17:20
ARN 16:45


TP 765
1 August
SVQ 13:00
LIS 12:55

Plenty of flights, that go back one timezone usually (non peak hours anyway) involve landing before you took off. AMS/BRU/CDG-LHR for example. Of course, by gate to gate airline timetable they're not.

Per the OP's request of westbound covering multiple timezones, I can't think of any current flights. Besides Concorde, all I can think of, historically, was back in the 80's when Europe to Japan used to involve routing via ANC and I seem to remember some of those arrived there for refuelling before takeoff time with the -9/-10 hours time difference.

On the other side of the Atlantic....
 

UA 7217
1 August
SBN 5:35
ORD 5:20


LA 931
1 December
MDZ 13:00
SCL 12:55