icna05e From France, joined Feb 2006, 289 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4809 times:
I guess this is because, while being just a little farther away than London, Paris is in a timezone that allows "early" departures to be 1 hour earlier. Maybe the city that would have the best chance in this case would be Lisbon, being 400km closer and still in the same timezone, but I guess the O/D doesn't need an early departure.
Richie72 From Sweden, joined Sep 2007, 100 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 4580 times:
Thanks for all your replies everyone...
Looks like (by fluke) I happened to mention the earliest arrival after all onto US soil.
Makes me wonder then what the latest arrival is - latest i have found so far is VS17 LHR -EWR arriving at 23h10 but then I havent taken into account the 3 hour time diff with the West coast so maybe something else beats Virgin 17 !
miaintl From United States of America, joined Jun 2010, 827 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 4143 times:
On a seperate note, does anyone know were one can find out about an airlines future scheduling, for example like knowing when an airline's summer 2011 schedule would be updated? Would hostesses and stewardess know?
WestWing From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2114 posts, RR: 8 Reply 16, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 4083 times:
bhmdiversion From United States of America, joined Dec 2008, 445 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 4048 times:
I have yo all beat... DL 272 from AMS - DTW comes in at 1019am today!
FLT INFO 272/14AUG
LOF ARR DEP ETA ON IN ETD OUT OFF ACF#
AMS 800A 753A 832A 333
DTW 1035A 1019A
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2. ALL-
CK TIMATIC TKT/ENTRY DOCUMENTATION FOR ALL INTL FLTS
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B777LRF From Luxembourg, joined Nov 2008, 1015 posts, RR: 3 Reply 19, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 3896 times:
Sorry guys, but you're all wrong. The earliest arrivals will be from either DHL, FedEx or UPS, departing and thus arriving way earlier than any of the inferior passenger carrying airlines, in order to be able to make deliveries before noon.
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Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18883 posts, RR: 54 Reply 22, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 3091 times:
Did a two-minute search, and the winner thus far is LH8188 that departed FRA at 0220 and arrived ORD 0423. This is based on the 13th August and www.flightstats.com
Other early cargo arrivals (on the same date and from the same site) include:
FX101 that departed CDG at 0259 and arrived MEM at 0431.
A DHL machine that departed LEJ at 0325 and arrived JFK 0515.
An LH M1F that departed FRA at 0340 and arrived JFK 0534.
An ABX 76F that departed LGG at 0453 and arrived JFK at 0627.
Any arrival earlier than 0423?
[Edited 2010-08-14 08:00:13]
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Pyrex From Portugal, joined Aug 2005, 3542 posts, RR: 28 Reply 23, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 2909 times:
Quoting icna05e (Reply 7): Maybe the city that would have the best chance in this case would be Lisbon, being 400km closer and still in the same timezone, but I guess the O/D doesn't need an early departure.
Lisbon is in the same time-zone as London, not Paris... you're right about the O/D, though, no need for anything that early (although depending on their connecting banks at EWR and PHL, CO and US might be able to pull it off).
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sw733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6107 posts, RR: 10 Reply 24, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2344 times:
Quoting tonytifao (Reply 14): Interesting how different cultures work
Not so much a cultural factor as a time zone factor...
BNAOWB From United States of America, joined Dec 2009, 350 posts, RR: 1 Reply 25, posted (2 years 10 months 1 week 3 days ago) and read 2323 times:
Quoting Rafabozzolla (Reply 11): What about the other way around? Which is the earliest arrival in Europe?
For conventional overnight USA-Europe passenger service, DLH 417 (IAD-FRA) will be the first to land in Europe at about 5:10 local time. For an earlier local time that is actually later, BAW 212 will land at LHR at about 4:50 local time (almost an hour later than DLH 417).
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