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I once took a Boston -> London flight that arrived significantly early thanks to the arctic jet stream. But that meant we arrived before the landing curfew ende
by goatforce5 7y ago
I once took a Boston -> London flight that arrived significantly early thanks to the arctic jet stream. But that meant we arrived before the landing curfew ended at 6am so the aircraft was put in a holding pattern above central London for 30 mins or so, and I flew more or less over my home in East London a few times (I could see it out the window as we flew overhead).
We landed a few minutes after 6am, and by the time I got through immigration and customs and rode home during the morning rush hour on the tube it would have been 8 or 8:30am.
Super frustrating that the last mile took 3 hours to complete!
- teh_klev 7y agoBack in 2002 a flight I took from Boston to London arrived into LHR airspace about 45-50 mins earlier than it should have due to a decent tailwind from the jetstream. Sadly we stacked for an hour and a half and ended up arriving later than the scheduled arrival time....because fricken Heathrow bottlenecks, and we almost missed our connecting flight back to Scotland. Grrr.