The first few hours are always most enjoyable, as you typically have a fantastic meal and are still “fresh”.When it comes to enjoying long haul flying, my general perception is as follows: When you’re planning a premium cabin trip, what’s the marginal enjoyment from extra flying? Is a 16 hour Emirates first class flight twice as fun as an eight hour Emirates first class flight? Is the world’s longest flight (on Singapore Airlines between Singapore and New York) the world’s most fun business class flight?Īfter more long haul flights in my life than I can count, I’m not sure I agree anymore that longer necessarily equals better. Perfect daytime flight length: ~8 hoursĪre longer first & business class flights always better?.Perfect overnight flight length: ~12 hours.Are longer first & business class flights always better?.
In this post I thought it would be fun to talk about a topic that some will surely be happy to geek out over - is there an ideal flight length when flying first or business class? That’s probably largely because I’m older, and I don’t have the travel stamina I once had.
Why fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo if you could fly from Los Angeles to Frankfurt to Bangkok to Tokyo, for example? 😉īut hundreds of flights and millions of flown miles later, my impression of the perfect amount of travel time has changed a bit. When it comes to redeeming miles & points for premium cabin travel, I’ve always been sort of obsessed with “maximizing value.” Admittedly the definition of that changes over time.īack in the day I defined that quite simply: redeeming as few miles as possible for as many hours as possible in top premium cabin products.
#Flight time durations free
“Getting there can be half the fun!” I think that’s a phrase many in the miles & points world can relate to (and if you can’t relate, I totally get it - feel free to skip this post!).
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