Flight time to Auckland, New Zealand

[celticcraftz]

I am doing an assignment for maths and need to draw a time/distance graph for several destinations. Unfortunately I cannot figure out the flight time to New Zealand from London Heathrow. If you add up the hours from departure to arrival it is 42 hours, but everyone says it takes between 24 and 27. Is this difference to do with time changes?

[NORMANTHEDOG]

time changes and stop over times

[Snowy Owl]

It also depends on which way you travel. London-LA-Auckland is around 23/24 hours, ie. 11/12 hours on each segment. But, add to this the fact that because you are travelling across the International Date line you will effectively `lose` a day as well. I can`t speak for the routes via Asia (Hong Kong or Singapore) as I`ve not flown them, but you don`t get the loss of a day that way.

Hope that hasn`t complicated matters even more for you!

[Gef]

Remember to deduct the 11 hours that NZ is ahead of the UK at the moment.

When I flew in June I left Heathrow at 2215 on Friday and arrived in Auckland at 1015 local time on Sunday (2315 BST Saturday). That's 23 hours but it also included 3 hours in Singapore.

[galaxy]

I flew Heathrow - LA - Auckland and was in the air for 25 hours (12.5 + 12.5)

When I returned, I left Auckland on Wednesday and landed in LA on Tuesday, the day before I departed. Very Strange feeling!

[Snowy Owl]

Just to confuse you further, I was in the fortunate position of getting two birthdays one year as we flew from NZ on my birthday and arrived in LA just as it started again! Wasn`t the best of birthdays though, as one of our cases didn`t make it to LA on the same flight as we were. Glad that I`d packed `half and half`, so we both had a change of clothing!

[celticcraftz]

Thank you everyone, every clear now!