Originally Posted by
SeenItAll
While this is likely correct, I have always wondered why there were so few late afternoon (or early evening) flights from Europe to the U.S.
When I first started at London ATCC, we expected the 'oceanic' eastbound flow from about 7am for flights departing the eastern seaboard early evening both to the UK and Europe, with westbounds departing the UK from about 6pm to arrive in the USA at roughly the same local time.
Nowadays (before lockdown that is) of course there are several flights across the ocean throughout the day; I remember Virgin Heathrow to JFK departing late morning to get to our hotel in Manhattan about 3pm and Heathrow to LAX departing early morning (about 9am) to land at about 3pm local.