Why don’t planes cross the Atlantic during the day? 🤔🤯… See more editoronSeptember 30, 2026

activities without wasting valuable time.

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Now imagine the opposite: taking off during the day and landing at night in Europe. The passenger would have to pay for a hotel immediately, sleep disoriented by the time change, and lose part of the next day recovering from fatigue.

For airlines, this makes the flight much less attractive to their most profitable customers.

When traveling from the Americas to Europe, time is against the passenger. Due to time zones, several hours are “lost” during the

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