Johnboy From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 2472 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 2944 times:
None on Delta; they pretty much let everyone sleep on LAX-MCO flight right up until 15 minutes before touchdown. On another SAN-CVG flight, same thing, except I remember how empty the CVG DL terminal was at 0545! Only West Coast flights arriving at that time!
767ALLTHEWAY From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 659 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 1 day ago) and read 2922 times:
I flew KSFO-KDFW (Red Eye) on a 757-200. I had planned on staying up and looking out the window (because i had a window seat), but i had a pannel over my window, how fun. I slept until we began our descent into DFW. I think we were offered a bag of mixed nuts and juice.
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TWA902fly From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 3048 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 1 day ago) and read 2917 times:
I flew from Anchorage to Chicago ANC-ORD on a 6 hour flight. Departure 9:20PM arrival 6:00AM. The flight was a United Boeing 757-200. This flight was 35 minutes late getting started and 30 minutes late arriving. It was scheduled for 8:45PM dep and 5:30AM arr. Anyways, it was one of the best flights i have had. The plane was half full and the FA gave me extra 'snacks' which were boxes containing turkey sandwitches and chips, she gave me 4 or 5, and i saved 3 of them to eat later. Most passengers were asleep. Those who werent (me) got to see the northern lights and then sunrise. I felt alright the next day, although it seemed like my two days merged into one, one very long day. I remember sleeping for a bout 2 hours from 3 to 5 or so.
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CactusA319 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2918 posts, RR: 29 Reply 4, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 2897 times:
I've flown AWA red-eyes twice, once LAS-ORD and the other LAS-MDW. Both were in First Class so the service was good. They showed a movie and served a meal, although on the second flight I just slept the entire time, which is what most people do on those flights anyway.
SQA340 From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 702 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 2892 times:
SFO-ORD UA B757-200
ORD-SFO, UA Dont remember aircraft
SFO-ORD UA DC10
I love redeye flights! I would leave SFO at 11:30 PM and get to ORD at 5:00 AM. I usually sleep on redeyes. I selpt pretty good on a 2-5-2 Y on a DC-10. All I remember about service is I had a 7-up enroute SFO-ORD B752 and we arrived when the sun rose.
Modesto2 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2634 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2885 times:
I flew SFO-IAD aboard UA50, a DC-10. This was back in the mid 90's. I just remember that it was really dark! We departed aroun 10:30 pm and arrived around 7.
A320FA From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 87 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2882 times:
I flown AWA LAS-FLL in Y-class on the 757. service was good. got a Beverage and a snack mix just after take off. they showed a movie. most everyone went to sleep. they also served another beverage one hour before landing.
Jfidler From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 294 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 2874 times:
I had a tough red-eye stint just last week. On AWA, I flew SJC-LAS-CMH-DCA. Yep, 3 flights to get from San Jose, California to Reagan National in DC. I had a breakfast on one of the flights, I think it was CMH-DCA. It was an egg sandwich, which wasn't too bad. On the other flights, it was just a soda and some peanuts.
LAS is interesting because they have slot machines right at the gates in the airport. The main problem with my red-eye was it was broken up into so many flights that I could never get even close to a full night's rest. When I got into DC, I went straight home and slept for 5 more hours!
SIA fan From Indonesia, joined Aug 2000, 728 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 2873 times:
I flew AA LAX-ORD in a 757 last August. I was very tired from the 15-hour flight aboard SQ 006 and to make matters worse I had a sore throat I also couldn't sleep because I was still jet lagged. Luckily one of my friends was on board the flight too, she connected from a CX flight and was having the same problems as me. We ended up sitting together and talked for the whole flight while other passengers were sleeping
Anyway, the extra legroom really made a difference. We left on time and arrived ORD roughly 20 minutes earlier than scheduled at 530 AM. The FAs offered drinks only once during the 3 hour plus flight. I think a few more rounds of drinks would be nice, especially for passengers who couldn't sleep.
VIflyer From US Virgin Islands, joined May 1999, 493 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 2865 times:
I flew a CO red eye flight from PHX-EWR (it was a actually a HP codeshare flight) over all it was ok, I mean it was a 737-500 which sorta suprised me for it being a 5 hour flight. At our seats they had already put out blankets and pillows (actually still in the plastic wrap..now that's fresh). As for service, basic, a bag of mixed snacks (ie. chips/nuts/corn chips) and a drink. At that point everyoe fell asleep (except me because I can't sleep on planes and I was still trying to figure out if the 735 had the range to get to EWR..lol..)
Purdue Arrow From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1574 posts, RR: 8 Reply 11, posted (12 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2852 times:
I have flown many redeyes, but most of them were shorter than transcon (a ton of SAN-ORD overnights, quite a few LAX-ORD, and LAX-DFW once or twice). I have also flown full transcons on a number of occasions, mostly LAX-JFK, but once on SJC-BOS. The flights are pretty good. In coach, American serves a light meal, usually a hot sandwich with chips and cookies or something similar. I have done the transcon redeyes in 767s, DC-10s, and a 757. The only time I really wasted the day afterward sleeping was on one particularly busy weekend... I had just graduated high school and attended our HS Grad night party that goes till 5 am. Headed straight to the airport and spent the day on a SAN-ORD flight that was delayed pretty significantly in flight for weather (it ended up taking about 8-9 hours after taking off), spent a day at Purdue to register for classes, flew to NY for a wedding, returned JFK-LAX with my family, who then flew down homt to San Diego while I met a friend and headed back to JFK on an overnight flight. When I finally arrived in NY for my vacation there, I was dead tired, but it was mostly because of the busy week rather than the flight itself.
TWAneedsNOhelp From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (12 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2849 times:
2 years ago, Tower SFO-JFK. Flight left over an hour late, no service whatsoever, pretty crowded, remember boarding was very hectic. The entire plane slept, I don't remember any meal service. Got in early morning NY, my dad and I took a car service home, he went to work; I slept.
Adam84 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 1400 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (12 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2831 times:
I have been on 2 redeye flights. HNL-IAH was the worst of all, due to the time change it was impossible to sleep. The flight departed at 5:45pm Hawaii time and arrived into IAH at about 6am Central time, which works out to be about 1am Hawaii time which was about an hour after I was going to sleep in Hawaii. The rest of the day was hell, I barely woke up after my IAH-JAX leg and was dozing off when we were taxiing to the terminal. The other was LAX-EWR, it departed at about 8:45pm and arrived into EWR around 5:45am, it wasnt so bad because I was actually able to sleep about 4 hours of the flight, I was tired and felt real dirty because I had been either flying or hanging around an airport for the last 20 hours. I would be hesitant to do a very long redeye like HNL-IAH again.
NY-JFK-LGA From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 374 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (12 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2829 times:
I've flown JetBlue's Red Eye from Ontario CA to JFK. Well, it was the usual jetBlue flight, with DirecTV, drinks and great flight attendant customer service. My departure time from ONT was supposed to be 11:50p, but was a little after midnight. We arrived on time into JFK promtly @ 7:40a. We hit almost 700mph because of the cool tail winds. So that trans-con flight was only 4hrs long. It was all awesome.
CX889 From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 49 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (12 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2823 times:
I flew UA204 (LAX-IAD) back in May and had a very relaxing flight. The flight, on an A319, was only half full, so there was plenty of room to stretch out. We took off from LAX's southern runway heading out over the Pacific and made a wide left hand circle and headed back east.
I remember UA served drinks and peanuts within 45 minutes of takeoff, then everyone onboard pretty much went to sleep. I tried to sleep, but ended up looking out the window for another hour, then fell asleep. The pilot did not make the usual PA annoucements telling where we are or what cities/rivers we were flying over. I expected this as most passengers were snoring now. The FA's served orange juice about 45 minutes before descent.
We arrived at IAD at about 0745, with mist and dew still visible on the grass next to the runways. Overall, a pleasant flight. I like taking red-eye flights because you do not end up losing precious time flying during the day, and the flights are usually not full (aka guaranteed window seat!).
Ishky15 From United States of America, joined May 2000, 717 posts, RR: 14 Reply 16, posted (12 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2811 times:
I've done redeyes like HNL-ORD/DFW 11 times, and I've also done SYD-LAX, but I'm not sure if that was a red eye flight because the time difference and flight length is much longer : )
In three weeks, however, I'll be doing the famour Newark to Honolulu route. This is my first time actually going nonstop to Hawaii during the dozen times I've been there. It will also be my first flight with Continental to Hawaii.
Redngold From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 6907 posts, RR: 51 Reply 17, posted (12 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2809 times:
I flew on Continental LAS-CLE on a redeye that departed LAS at 1:30 AM and arrived in CLE at about 7:30 AM. I don't recall any meal service. There may have been a snack near the end of the flight. We were on a 737, I'm not sure which series. Therefore there was no inflight movie. Most people slept for most of the trip.
MSPman From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 177 posts, RR: 2 Reply 18, posted (12 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2754 times:
I have been on three red-eye flights.
NW 50 DTW-CDG DC-10-30
My first tranatlantic flight and I couldn't sleep at all.
NW 920 HNL-MSP 747-400 or 747-200
I was with my high school band and I think it was a -400 because of the new interior. And also our band took the enitre back section of the plane. I was the one of the only ones awake.
QF 26 LAX-AKL 747-400
I actually slept on this flight, and had a good rest.
YXDFan From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 193 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (12 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2759 times:
I've flown red-eyes twice. Once from YYC-YYZ on CP976, a DC10. And then just this past summer from YEG-YYZ on AC158, an A320. Other than the fact that I only got a couple of hours of sleep on each, I quite enjoyed them. Both flights were completely full, yet I found them to be a much more relaxed atmosphere then your usual daytime transcon flight. They both were something special to me, as CP976 was my first DC-10 trip... and I was bumped into J Class for free on AC158!
Ship 7004 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (12 years 4 months 3 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 2715 times:
i've flown a delta red-eye, don't remember the flt number. It was a 767-300, from lax to jfk, and it was delayed. the flight was full, and everybody slept during the flight. There was a movie and a hot meal, I think it's because the flight shouldn't be a red-eye flight. before landing, f/a give us a drink and a snak, and in jfk, it was about 4 in the morning, there aren't so much people, only us...it was one of my best flight.
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