Thursday, November 21, 2024

23 Routes: The US & Canada’s Daytime Flights To Europe This Summer

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Several of the routes are new in 2024.

Summary

  • Only one in 56 US/Canadian flights to Europe will operate during the day in August.
  • There are 23 non-stop services with 10+ airlines.
  • Azores Airlines and Delta have new daytime services in 2024.


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Daytime Europe-bound flights are pretty few and far between. Using Cirium to analyze all scheduled non-stop flights from the US/Canada to Europe in August shows that they account for just 1.8% of the total.

The schedule’s lack of popularity is due to many reasons. Among them is the length of haul, insufficient point-to-point demand, lack of aircraft use (most have to remain overnight at one end of the route), and probably lower yields from less interest in beds. However, from a passenger’s perspective, they can help with jetlag.

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Daytime North America-Europe routes

The following enormous table summarizes the 23 services. Several are new for 2024, while others operate during the day for the first time, such as some of Azores Airlines’ flights from New York JFK back to Funchal, Madeira.

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Notice that 10 of the 23 routes are by Azores Airlines. Despite being a narrowbody operator, nine airport pairs will be on wet-leased widebody aircraft: the A330-200 from Plus Ultra and the Boeing 767-300ER from EuroAtlantic. For some routes, the situation appears partly due to a lack of crew rest areas on Azores Airlines’ narrowbodies.

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The information is based on
August 2024
and may differ at other times. As some departure/arrival times vary, the most common time is stated. All times are local. As always, things are subject to change. The
bold
in the table contents signifies the route or daytime schedule is new in 2024.


Departure time (US/Canada)*

Routing

Arrival time (Europe)***

Airline

Comments about August

06:55

New York JFK-Istanbul

23:40

Turkish Airlines

Daily A330-300

07:30

Boston-London Heathrow

18:55

British Airways

Daily 777-200ER

07:55

New York JFK-London Heathrow

19:45

British Airways

Daily 777-200ER

08:10

New York JFK-Paris CDG

21:35

Delta

Daily 767-400ER

08:20

New York JFK-London Heathrow

20:10

Virgin Atlantic

Daily A350-1000

08:30

Chicago O’Hare-London Heathrow

22:10

American

Daily 787-9

08:30

New York JFK-London Heathrow

20:45

JetBlue

Daily A321LR

08:30

Newark-London Heathrow

20:40

United

Daily 767-300ER

09:29 (yes, 29)

New York JFK-London Heathrow

21:40

American

Daily 777-200ER

10:30

Saint Pierre-Paris CDG

20:05

Air Saint-Pierre

Weekly 737 (wet-leased)

10:55

Halifax-London Heathrow

21:00

Air Canada

Daily 737 MAX 8

11:00

New York JFK-Terceira

20:45

Azores Airlines

Weekly A330-200 (wet-leased)

11:00

New York JFK-Porto

22:30

Azores Airlines

Weekly 767-300ER (wet-leased)

11:15

Toronto-Porto

23:10

Azores Airlines

Weekly 767-300ER (wet-leased)

11:30

Toronto-Funchal

23:15

Azores Airlines

Weekly 767-300ER (wet-leased)

11:35

Boston-Terceira

20:40

Azores Airlines

Weekly A330-200 (wet-leased)

11:35

Boston-Ponta Delgada

20:40

Azores Airlines

Four weekly A320neo (yes, A320)

11:50

New York JFK-Funchal**

23:00

Azores Airlines

Weekly 767-300ER (wet-leased)

12:10

Boston-Porto

23:25

Azores Airlines

Weekly 767-300ER (wet-leased)

12:10

Boston-Funchal

23:10

Azores Airlines

Weekly 767-300ER (wet-leased)

12:35

Boston-Keflavik

21:50

Icelandair

Daily 737 MAX 8

13:00

New York JFK-Keflavilk

22:35

Icelandair

Five weekly 737 MAX 8

13:25

Toronto-Terceira

23:20

Azores Airlines

Twice-weekly A330-200 (wet-leased)

* Local

** First time during the day

*** Local


Will you be flying any of the above services this summer? Let us know in the comments section.

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