How do I get a red eye flight?

[3princesses+aprince]

We are going to Disney in May. My Mom metioned a red eye flight, and I said yeah, I'd do that... But i've looked on many different websites and cannot find any. Any help would be appreciated , thanks

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

a red eye flight is any flight that departs the evening before and arrives the next morning. Most major carriers have them... most low cost carriers do not. Please note there are no real fare differences between majors/low cost carriers.

 

[DebbieB]

Where are you flying from? Red eyes are typically from the west coast.

 

[seashoreCM]

Very few flights normally take off or land between midnight and 5 AM local time. Most U.S. domestic red eye flights are from the west coast to the east coast because of the time zone differences. A plane could then be one of the last to depart in the evening and be ready to be the first to depart another airport the next morning.

 

[Edd]

Delta and United have the only red-eyes and they are from the West Coast. Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Those are the only two red-eyes into Orlando that I know of and they arrive approximately 0530h at MCO.

 

[3princesses+aprince]

Oh ok, thanks for the replys.... We are on the east coast, so I guess we're out for that. Thank you!!!

 

[suzimar57]

DH would book red eye flights to vegas (from NJ) when we first met

now i do all our travel plans - instead, we leave at a (more respectable) 7am flight out of newark, arriving around 9am vegas time

hated those late late flights, arriving in the middle of the night!

could never "adjust" to the time change, and we'd only be there 2 or 3 days anyway - now, we go for either 4 or 5 nights

 

[CarolA]

I just booked a flight that takes off out of LAX at 12:45 AM, arrives ATL at 8 AM. There are also flights out of there earlier in the evening including one that gets in at the "un holy" hour of around 5AM. This would allow you to connect with the first flight to MCO!

I HATE THEM!!!! Generally only do them to Europe, but had to for work reasons!

 

[MAH4546]

JetBlue actually has redeyes from New York to Florida during select and very busy times in the winter, but they are always to Fort Lauderdale. I never recall one to Orlando.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Okay, I'm confused. Late evening/night flights aren't necessarily red-eye flights.

Westbound flights, and continental-US north- and southbound flights, are rarely red-eyes. They may depart in the evening, even late in the evening, but - due to the relative lack of distance north and south, and due to the time change from east to west - they're just plane late evening flights.

Red-eye flights are flights such as the ones specified by CarolA - they leave the west coast (or close) airport late evening/night, fly all night due to the time change, and arrive at the east coast destination airport generally at or after sunrise the next day - or, as in CarolA's case, many hours later the same day.

They're nicknamed 'red-eye' because you fly when you'd ordinarily be sleeping and so even if you're lucky enough to doze for a while during the flight, it's not a GOOD sleep - so you disembark with, well, red, tired (Visine-seeking) eyes!

 

[MAH4546]

Okay, I'm confused. Late evening/night flights aren't necessarily red-eye flights.

Westbound flights, and continental-US north- and southbound flights, are rarely red-eyes. They may depart in the evening, even late in the evening, but - due to the relative lack of distance north and south, and due to the time change from east to west - they're just plane late evening flights.

Red-eye flights are flights such as the ones specified by CarolA - they leave the west coast (or close) airport late evening/night, fly all night due to the time change, and arrive at the east coast destination airport generally at or after sunrise the next day - or, as in CarolA's case, many hours later the same day.

They're nicknamed 'red-eye' because you fly when you'd ordinarily be sleeping and so even if you're lucky enough to doze for a while during the flight, it's not a GOOD sleep - so you disembark with, well, red, tired (Visine-seeking) eyes!

It depends on what you define as "redeye." You seem to limit the definition to flights that skip over time zones and cut on sleep.

The industry definition is simply a flight that leaves at night and arrives in the morning, regardless of direction. Airlines use redeyes in order to increase fleet utilziation. At night, planes are parked at airports, but redeyes put them to good use and it is better to fly them and make money then let them be parked. That's why when fuel prices soared, redeyes were often the first flights to be cut.

JetBlue has flights that leave New York at around midnight and get into Puerto Rico at around 5AM. During the holidays, jetBlue has redeyes departing JFK at around 1AM and getting into Fort Lauderdale at around 4AM (though because of uncongested air corridors and favorable flying conditions at night, a redeye from New York to Fort Lauderdale can take less as little as 1h50m).

From Miami, there are redeye flights that leave Miami at around midnight and arrive in cities all over South America the next morning.

When going north/south, redeye flights work in both directions. Though going east/west, there redeyes only operate West to East.

 

[kaytieeldr]

There are airports on the east coast that ALLOW planes to take off in the middle of the night like that? Intentionally? Wow! I'm used to Logan - where we ONCE (in thirty years) landed at 3:30 AM. Usually, when I land at 10PM, everything is shut down - and few flights depart/arrive much later than that!

 

[seashoreCM]

... ... even if you're lucky enough to doze for a while ... it's not a GOOD sleep - so you ...(have) ... well, red, tired (Visine-seeking) eyes!

I try for the last flight of the evening home. But I avoid the first flight of the morning down otherwise my last night at home will be, well, red-eye!

... they're just plane late evening flights.

(I trust, no pun intended.) Leaving unmentioned the comment that needs the Ph.D. in English and that can be summed up in three letters.

 

[clkelley]

I've taken the late night flight from LAX to MCO on Delta before. It actually went pretty well. I took a OTC sleep aid when they did the beverage service, and the next thing I knew we were landing at MCO at 618 am.

I got a private ride on DME to All-Stars and checked in. My room wasn't ready, but I had a carryon with a change of clothes so I went to the shower at the pool, and freshened up and changed clothes and gave my carryon to Bell Services. By that time my DH arrived on DME after his early morning flight from Nashville and we enjoyed our weekend.