Thread: What's a transoceanic flight day?

My guess would be that since one traveling across an ocean like the Pacific which takes some 8 hrs from say Seattle, USA to Narita, Japan and jumping into a day forward because of the IDL. Kind of shoots the day away that you could otherwise be doing something like working, or shopping or whatever you do besides sitting on a plane for 8 hours, plus give or take another 3-4 hours getting to the airport, going through security, or getting to and from the airport so that now makes it a 12 hour day. Being you crossed an ocean, and the time difference between West Coast and Japan is a day FORWARD since you crossed the international date line, and the times are hours apart. Like day and night different. So it makes sense that a TRANSOCEANIC FLIGHT DAY.....(I've never heard it called that way) may mean dealing with time zones and International Date Line being crossed. Best way to follow all that confusion is utilizing GREENWICH MEAN TIME or (GMT) also known as COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME (UTC) and also known as ZULU TIME. Utilizing either one of these methods are exactly the same. World is divided into 24 time zones. Greenwich England is at 0 GMT. In the East Coast, you subtract 5 hours, (Because you are going through 5 time zones at one hour per time zone each) minus 6 hours in Central Time, 7 hours minus at Rocky Mountain Time, and so forth..... This also depends on daylights savings time which is seasonal so at times East coast is -5 hours and sometimes changes to -6 hours. and so forth.

Originally Posted by gagagoo

So, for example, is ATL-DXB 1 day, or a 1/2 of a day.
Would ATL-AMS-BOM and ATL-NRT-BKK be 2?
What about, say ATL-LIM, or ATL-SXM?

Basically, how does delta define the oceans and flight days?

Thanks so much. I am brand spanking new to all this! I don't even have access to travelnet yet!

My apologies, got caught in the terminology, "Transoceanic flight day", not paying attention to how your respective airline "Delta" defines a "Flight Day". I humbly withdraw.

Originally Posted by mrs767er

24 hour flight day--no such thing as 1/2 flight day
ATL/DXB one flight day (either way)
ATL/AMS/BOM one day only if you you do not overnight--I don't believe that will be an option unless the 2nd leg departs inside the 24 hr window
ATL/NRT/BKK one day if no overnight (watch your travelnet charges after the fact--mistakes do happen--up to you to monitor and contact if not correct)
ATL/LIM or ATL/SXM one flight day and there are system and transoceanic options. As soon as you can, get on travelnet and read, read, read! If you have questions after that, list them and call the pass bureau (not when it's irops, please!) for information--take notes!
Good of you to ask. What's your job, welcome to this forum and Delta.
Please do a search here for the Nonrev Prayer--you should print it and carry it with you!

Haha, I ran into the nonrev prayer during my searchers. As for my job, I've just started to push people around in wheelchairs for DGS as a part-time gig during college -- so not the most exciting thing in the world, but hey, maybe I'll get to go to some cool places.

Thanks to everyone for their responses. I am sure I'll have more questions in 30 days!

Another question:

Why is it that there are sometimes more available seats than authorized seats (i.e. 10 Av 5 Au)? I think I've only seen this happen for business seats.

I most recently saw it JFK-ZRH... maybe RA doesn't like to sit next to anyone :P

But coach was empty too... maybe predicted SWU does have something to do with it, or maybe it's one of those upgrades at check in? Anyone have experience listing on those flights?