Flts from SEAsia to the US - when do you arrive home?
 

Ok, this may rank up there with the world's stupidest questions but:

When flying from SEAsia back to the USA, do you arrive on the same day you depart SEAsia or, you arrive the next day? We are looking to travel to BKK in April and the arrival day home is important due to the kids' school schedules.

When we flew back from SIN last year we departed SIN at almost midnight and arrived - I believe - the next calendar day in NYC. Of course, I had thought we would arrive the same day, which was kind of a surprise to my co workers. Yet, if Asia is a day ahead of the east coast, shouldn't you arrive on the same day you depart? After all, you lose a day when you head to SEAsia. Do you gain it back on your return?

Thus, when I look at flts out of BKK that depart at 10 p.m., and they arrive in NYC about 20 hours later (for example via NRT), if you add 20 hours, you get to 6 pm Asia time. Subtract about 12 hours and do you arrive in NYC in the morning of the same day you depart? Looking at Orbitz and other vendors some say "arrival +1 day" others say "arrival + 2 days" (Huh??), and others don't say anything at all, leading me to think maybe you do get there the same day. And, if I do want to arrive home the same day I depart BKK, does that then mean I want to catch the earliest flight out of BKK?

Thanks. Tengo.

We fly out of Bangkok at 6 am, and we arrive in Seattle (after a layover at Narita) the same day, at 8 am. So while I gained back the day I lost, even from Seattle, we don't arrive home before we left Bangkok. However, we do arrive home before we left Narita.

If you flew out of Singapore at midnight, you arrived in NYC the next calendar day. But if you had left in the morning, you would have arrived home the same day. You gain the day back, but you have to consider flying time.

Typically, if an airline schedule doesn't have a +1 or +2, you are arriving same day. The +2 flights are usually ones leaving the US late in the day ( say, Friday) and arriving early in the morning +2 (in this case, Sunday).

A flight that departs BKK at 10pm will arrive the US the next calendar day, i.e. +1.

To arrive some day, you need to depart BKK really early. Like 6am.

tengo, a lot of the flights depart around midnight and that's the key factor to watch. If your flight departs at 11:55 p.m. then it arrives in the US the next calendar day. If it departs at 12:05 a.m. (five past midnight) then it arrives on the same day. That 10 minute difference can cause a lot of confusion.

Thank you.

Yes, confusion was indeed the order of the day. Upon arrival home we REALLY need that extra day to deal with jet lag. Thus, I think I need to look at early a.m. flights out of BKK, even if that "cheats" us out of an extra day there. Yet, of course, most flts to the East Coast that I see out of BKK depart starting in the evening . . .

Flights that depart in the evening to the US Europe will be going through Europe. If they depart BKK after midnight, then you'll arrive Europe that same morning, as well as the US that same afternoon/evening.

Or they may be a short red-eye to Korea or Tokyo. Same deal, if the flight departs after midnight, you arrive same calendar day.

The way to figure BKK-JFK arrival time is to take the departure time, add the flight time and subtract 12 hours.

another key is if you fly out in the early AM, you will arrive home after noon the same generally....

After reading this thread, you all sound like math geniuses to me.

We leave at 6:40 AM and arrive Hartford at 7:09 PM the same day: BKK-NRT-ORD-BDL with 3-1/2 and 2 hour layovers.

I just use kayak.com and filter the last flights landing time.

Or you can take the departure time, subtract 12 hours and add the flight time. Addition is associative. Or, you can take Lcuy's easy way out. It's no fun, but is usually accurate.

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