Poll: Flying daytime J vs Nighttime J

[amaroo]

We're happy to fly J at night .... F for day departures.

I actively make the effort to book this way. Last week when I couldn't get QF to release F award seats to LHR, I went ahead and booked a night time J flight to Tokyo where we'll connect to a midday JL F to London. On the way back we'll enjoy a few days in Paris and depart midday on CX F to Hong Kong where we'll connect to a CX J back to Oz.

Will get to enjoy some spunky lounges too

 

[get me outta here]

I also will not book anything that means I have to get to the a/p earlier than 10am. If I research the hotel day to day prices and am arriving on say a Saturday night in NYC, and the first night is is >AUD500 a night, I’d prefer a broken attempt at sleep on the flight and arrive early the next day.

 

[Jemm82]

I am one who cannot, no matter what, sleep in economy. In business class lie flat I get at least 6 hours solid sleep. Each time we fly to Europe we do so overnight and then hit the ground running as soon as we’ve checked in to our accommodation. Easy to last the whole day, eat dinner and then bed. wake up around 7am with very little to no jet lag. If I had to fly economy I would choose day flight due to the non sleeping issue but honestly I will try very hard to avoid this. Once I did a flight from London to Brisbane direct through the night. I was 18 at the time and haven’t, nor will I, ever do that again!

I don’t care much for food onboard and don’t drink a lot. I can understand people wanting to do J on a day flight so they enjoy these things. I too was once like that but now I much prefer tea\water and sleep. I feel much better for it. My go to: showering at the lounge, board and straight into pj’s, cup of tea and straight into bed mode.

 

[maureeng]

Please explain??????????????????????????????????????

I have never managed more than 2 hours of very broken sleep in Economy. In First and Business the situation is VASTLY improved.

I can’t sleep in economy as I prefer to sleep lying flat. In economy you are sitting up with your head at an awkward angle.
I like to fly business at night. I have a routine. Watch a tv episode at take off. Have dinner then watch a movie then put seat into lie flat position and sleep till breakfast. Works every time

 

[samh004]

I chose daytime, and my reasoning is that if I am paying for it then I want to be awake to enjoy it.

 

[JohnK]

I can sleep in economy. Business class flights are a treat to be enjoyed not wasted on sleep.

 

[eddie 73]

Fly Mel-hkg 2-3 x p.a, mel-lax 1-2x p.a... can’t sleep on planes, even with a good few glasses of red washing down a stilnox or two. I guess i am an insomniac, with patchy sleep patterns at home too.

I always fly J, at great expense.

So daytime flights are my choice.

Used to fly CX and loved the morning flights home. Now only QF and even though J, hate only being able to fly home overnight.

 

[Forg]

I’ve noticed that it doesn’t matter when the flight is, the onboard procedure is to get a meal into passengers after take-off (for a 7.5hr flight that’s pretty quickly, for a 13.5hr flight it can be a couple of hours), then after that’s cleared-up the lighting is turned right down & everyone with a window-seat pulls the shades & I’m left sitting in the dark.

About the length of one movie is roughly as long as I can sit in the dark before feeling drowsy; not that I can actually sleep, I just feel like it.

So it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s day or night, the onboard experience for me is the same.
When we flew F only to New Zealand it almost felt like a waste to only experience it for such a short time; but in hindsight & with lie-flats now in J that I easily fit in, having that 3.5hr F flight was probably about right for enjoyment-per-hour-per-dollar (~$800 return with an EK special).

 

[HockeyMonkey]

Regardless of class, I much prefer arriving mid afternoon - evening and getting a good night sleep in the hotel.

Really not a fan of early morning arrivals and for business especially always aim to arrive the day before.

 

[ICUDr]

J day flights..

I can't sleep well either way so might as well enjoy the experience.

Only time I have slept in J was KUL-SYD with MH and because we had a long night at BKK before connecting in KUL.

Last year did a 24hr shift then did VA/SQ NTL-BNE-SYD-JKT in Y. The lounge lady put me on a row of 3 empty seats and still couldn't sleep at all until I arrived to JKT.

I recently did J PER-BNE with QF's A330 and... Nothing. Didn't sleep at all despite an early dinner with plenty on Vasse Felix's Tom Cullity 2014 on tap.

J day flights get my humble and sleepless vote Zzz

 

[NoName]

For me it’s:


F - day time only. No need to waste the experience when the objective in a night flight is simply to sleep.


J - Night or day. Night time the sleep objective is much more easily met while during the day it’s still much more comfortable.


Y+ - day time only. Sure there’s more room but with a seat that simply reclines I am unable to get any more sleep than in Y. Save the cost/points and go Y. Day time the extra comfort is worth it.


Y - Preferably day since I find it difficult to sleep. Night if I have to.

 

[drron]

I'm a little different.I prefer to arrive at the destination early evening so that when I get to hotel/home I can go to bed,have a good sleep and wake refreshed and not suffer any jet lag.
But I prefer day flights especially now that we are travelling more F segments.

 

[DaveB]

Either is fine provided the overnight flight is 8+ hours recently reminded when had no choice flying back with friends from SIN for a weekend away.
Absolutely love the long afternoon first leg departure to the middle east, then loathe the midnight airport experience followed by a short European leg arriving at the crack of dawn making it difficult to recover regardless of the oodles of sleep had on the long first leg.
A short afternoon flight to SIN or HKG followed by a long overnight flight has me hitting the ground running. I reverse it coming home leaving early with a short daytime flight from either HKG or SIN for an evening arrival.

 

[Mr_Gimlet]

I'm a night fan because it doesn't chew up time. However, it needs to be long enough to actually sleep, so nothing under seven hours. My favourite sleepy flights are London to Johannesburg, and Singapore Melbourne.

 

[clipped_wings]

Daytime for me.

My reasoning? I gotta be awake so I can say YES to everything.

If I wanted an experience that costs thousands of dollars, just so I can sleep and then wake up when it's over - I'll have surgery.

 

[Major]

I don't sleep well on flights so I prefer daytime and after the champagne/wine/sticky etc usually nod off for awhile. Late night departures are a PITA and not good value if in J or F.

 

[daft009]

prefer day for everything.
thought am about to do the new SQ221 suites leaving Singapore at 8.20pm...lets see how that goes

 

[wannabeinvestmentbanker]

For work, I like a mid afternoon departure to prep everything in the morning, enjoy a sneaky F lounge lunch and then arrive to the hotel to crash.

For leisure I dislike arriving late at night as everything just seems harder in terms of public transport and finding your way around a city so prefer a morning or early afternoon arrival.

I agree with the sentiment that J/F should be enjoyed where possible

 

[Pierre_a]

It depends on the wine list.

 

[althaluss]

If you can sleep in J you can probably sleep in Economy, so why waste the money and the experience? (I can't sleep in either).

Renato

Not true - there are some (like me) who can, IN NO WAY, sleep sitting up. In J, at least I get to lie down - even then I have to take a couple of sleeping pills - mild, over-the-counter ones work for me, as I never take them otherwise, so I have no built-up resistance to them.

I do a long-haul (Melbourne to Warsaw, on Emirates via Dubai) twice a year. The Melbourne-Dubai leg is around 13-14 hours which allows me to sleep for around 6 or 7 hours - I arrive in Dubai in pretty good nick. The 6-hours Dubai to Warsaw leg arrives at around 11am in Warsaw. That 6-7 hours sleep allows me to spend the rest of my first day in Warsaw to organise the domestic stuff I need for my usual month-long stay (I stay in an apartment, so I do a bit of supermarket shopping, top-up my local mobile account, top-up my public transport card, catch up with local news and I'm ready to go the next morning).