Flights to Europe from North America leaving morning or midday?

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Where are you flying from? About the only morning/early pm flights that I am aware of leave from the east coast - mainly New York and Washington, DC. You search for the flights the same way you search for any flights - put in the day and time and hit the search button. Other than the east coast flights most European flights arrive in the AM, and depart that PM as the most convenient schedule.

Think about the logistics. Example, the non-stop Lufthansa flight from Denver to Frankfurt leaves Denver at 5:25 PM and gets into Frankfurt at 11:00 AM.

Switch that by 12 hour, and the flight leaves Denver at 5:25 AM and gets into Frankfurt at 11:00 PM. A 5:25 flight is awfully early to get to the airport for in the morning, and 11:00 PM is awfully late to be getting to Frankfurt at night, and still having to get to a hotel. And moving the flight times up or back is going to make departure or arrival even worse.

Since Lufthansa flies one plane to Denver and back, the flight to Denver would have to leave Frankfurt at 1:25 AM and would arrive in Denver at 3:25 AM.

If you move the current flight up about 5 hours, you could leave Denver just after noon and get into Frankfurt at 6 AM. Then the flight to Denver would leave at 8 AM and get into Denver at 10 AM. I don't see a problem with that, but I wouldn't want to get to Frankfurt any earlier than 6 AM. Of course, 6 AM might be a busy time for domestic (European flights) and they might have trouble finding open gates in Frankfurt at that time.

BTW, with the current timing getting to DIA for the afternoon flight is convenient, and the 1:25 JPM departure from Frankfurt gives me plenty of time to get to FRA. I like the current schedule.

It depends on where you live.
We have several 9 am flights to London from Chicago.

British Airways has an 8 am flight from Boston to Heathrow.

I think most of the search engines (like Orbitz) will let you specify preferred departure time periods.

Not too many out there. There was an American Airlines day flight out of Philly for about two minutes, but it is gone. AA has even trumped BA in Philly so there is only 1 BA flight per day. Boo.

Washington, Newark, JFK, Boston seem to be the northeastern airports with some day flights. I have not looked at, say, Toronto. I use Kayak and sort by departing flights, early to late, to see if any AM flights pop up. Sadly, not too many. I also take a look at what the airport says re departing flights and their destinations.

Best, Debbie

Nonstop morning flights to LHR:

Boston (BOS)--British Airways

New York (JFK)--British Airways, American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic

Newark (EWR)--United

Washington, DC (IAD)--United

Chicago (ORD)--American

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to reply with this helpful information. It is a big help. JoAnn

As I said, Lufthansa could leave from Denver at any time from 12:30 PM to 5:30 PM and get to Frankfurt at from 6 AM to 11 AM. The reason that they picked the later time (and this does not necessarily apply to all cities in the US, is that Denver has thin air at 5000 ft, so It's hard for a jumbo jet to get off the ground here with a load of full to go to Europe. On a hot day in the summer it's particularly difficult, so they wait until evening, when the temperature has cooled off a bit.

I fly out of SFO and have had no problem finding my preferred flight time between 12 noon to 4 pm, depending on where I'm going, direct or with 1 stop, I arrive anywhere from 10 am to 3 pm. I fly United, KLM and Lufthansa.

This is about eastbound flights, not the other way around.

From Dulles (IAD), United has a morning flight to London. As far as I am aware, there are daytime flights to London out of IAD, ORD, BOS, JFK, and EWR.

If you use kayak.com, you can select a filter under quality to avoid red eye flights after you search to see only daytime flights.