WB Day Flying
08-28-2021, 04:02 AM
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WB Day Flying
We all know a lot of WB flying is back end of the clock international flying. I am just curious is there any realistic possibility to fly WBs exclusively if not pretty consistently during the day.
08-28-2021, 04:59 AM
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Right now there’s a ton of widebody day flying. Turns and transcons. I’m sure some airliners.net fanboy has a list of all the routes. Seems to be a COVID thing, transoceanic flying is a shell of its former self so might as well fly the WBs where the demand is. Nobody knows how long that will continue.
08-28-2021, 05:42 AM
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Originally Posted by thrust
Right now there’s a ton of widebody day flying. Turns and transcons. I’m sure some airliners.net fanboy has a list of all the routes. Seems to be a COVID thing, transoceanic flying is a shell of its former self so might as well fly the WBs where the demand is. Nobody knows how long that will continue.
08-28-2021, 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Tjeff
I can understand that. I am talking more prior to Covid and going forward in a few years assuming schedules revert to what they were. I just don’t want to consistently fly back end of the clock. Unless you’re extremely disciplined and sacrifice half your day and keep consistent day sleeping schedules on off days it would seem to be difficult to get proper rest most days of the month.
08-28-2021, 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Tjeff
I can understand that. I am talking more prior to Covid and going forward in a few years assuming schedules revert to what they were. I just don’t want to consistently fly back end of the clock. Unless you’re extremely disciplined and sacrifice half your day and keep consistent day sleeping schedules on off days it would seem to be difficult to get proper rest most days of the month.
08-28-2021, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by thrust
Prior to COVID the flying you’re looking for was limited to a relatively small amount of transcons and hub to hub repositions. There were also a few JFK-LHR and ORD-LHR daytime trips… leave the US in the morning and land at LHR at 10pm or whatever LHR time, fly back the next day late afternoon LHR time. Those trips will most certainly exist in the future, but nobody knows how soon or how often. When they do exist, they go senior- the senior geriatrics want them too. The vast majority of widebody flying will be transoceanic with multiple time zone changes, or overnight both ways to Deep South America. If that doesn’t sound appealing, there’s lots of easy narrowbody flying as you get more senior (turns, easy 1-1s, etc).
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