Related: Review: Virgin Atlantic A340 Upper Class - JFK to London You can sleep in a real bedĪmerican Airlines Casper bedding (Photo by Zach Griff/The Points Guy) I've found the flights 'fly by', so to speak, and feel much shorter than flying the reverse leg from London to New York. Of course, daytime flights take similar lengths of time but sleep is rarely a concern - you can easily stay awake the whole flight. If you want to maximize rest periods, you could skip the meals completely - perhaps by eating in the lounge beforehand - but even if you are in first class with an eye mask, earplugs and a flatbed, you'll only be allowed to recline your seat for less than five hours between takeoff and descent. Related: Just how risky is it to fly over vast oceans? A pilot explains I would be surprised if the lights were off for more than three hours on this flight, and I need a lot more sleep than that to function properly the next day. That's a lot less than the seven-hour scheduled time. How fast can these flights be? In 2020 a British Airways plane managed the journey in four hours and 56 minutes. īy signing up, you will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. Here's why daytime flights from New York to London are much better than overnight flights.įor more TPG news and deals delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter.
With practice, I've perfected my strategy for the route as much as possible, and now I always opt for daytime flights instead of the slew of overnight choices. I've flown from New York to London more times than I can remember on a variety of different carriers, in different classes and at different flight times. These flights are so short that you can depart in the morning and arrive in the evening on the same day. New York, Chicago, Washington and Boston, however, are somewhat unique as these cities also offer a handful of daytime flights to London. to London depart in the evening and arrive the following morning or around lunchtime given there is at least a five-hour time difference.
Related: Norse Atlantic plans dirt-cheap transatlantic flights. Norse Atlantic will join the pack later this month with a new service to Gatwick Airport (LGW) - I'll be trying it out soon. I counted 25 nonstop flights departing today alone on this route serviced by six carriers ( British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and JetBlue). to the U.K., especially on the ultra-competitive New York to London route. There is no shortage of flights from the East Coast of the U.S.
twice last month, once to see my TPG colleagues in South Carolina, and again to attend a wedding in upstate New York. Travel is back which means right now I'm traveling just as much as before the pandemic, and I have a strong recommendation for anyone flying from New York City to London.