Arrive before you leave
Jul 12, 2008 | 11:30 pm
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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?
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?
Jul 13, 2008 | 12:10 am
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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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Jul 13, 2008 | 12:13 am
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I think the OP is looking for WESTBOUND flights that land before taking off.
I cannot think of any-only eastbound.
I cannot think of any-only eastbound.
Jul 13, 2008 | 12:14 am
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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?
Jul 13, 2008 | 12:17 am
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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?
Jul 13, 2008 | 12:56 am
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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?
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.
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Jul 13, 2008 | 2:15 am
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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.
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.
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