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Group: uk.transport.air · Group Profile
Author: Graham HarrisonGraham Harrison Date: Jan 19, 2008 07:25
"Mr. Travel" wrote in message
news:peudnUR_dJc6NwzanZ2dnUVZ_uninZ2d@comcast.com...> ariopp wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I am a practicing Orthodox Jew and wish to travel form LHR to LAX on
>> Friday 8 February 2008.
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>> There is a BA flight round about 10am & a Virgin flight at 11.30am.
>> The flying time is just over 11 hours.
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>> If I catch either of these flights I will arrive in LAX well before
>> the Sabbath commences in LAX. However, my Rabbi has said that I should
>> check on the route the flight takes as it may go far enough North to
>> actually encounter a time of darkness thus meaning that the Sabbath
>> has already "arrived".
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>> Could you please advise if either of these flights do?
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>> Unusual question but I think quite interesting....
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>> Thanks in advance for all the help!
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> When is your return date?
> How do you plan to avoid darkness on the return.
> What about flight delays.
The return flight would only be an issue if it departed on Friday. Any
other day of the week is not an issue.
Most of my flying from Heathrow to the west coast has been on early flights
(largely because I lived near the airport and preferred to get my travelling
done early). There was on occasion when we caught the 1530 BA flight and
by the time we had completed the flight and got to a LAX airport hotel it
was dark. Other than that I cannot remember an occasion when it got dark
en route or soon after arrival.
I would caution about some of the calculations mentioned here based on great
circle routes. Whilst most of my flights have followed a similar routing
there was one occasion when the flight went overhead Vancouver (Canada) and
then all the way down the west coast instead of crossing the border
somewhere near Winnipeg and that will have had some effect on the routing
over Greenland etc. However, even on that occasion I do not remember
darkness (or sunset)
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