International Flight at Night-India

[prashanth]

ppl any idea why international flights heading far west depart late at night and nt other times in India??

[bigduke6]

To arrive at the destination in the morning perhaps............

[vserian]

Since the Flights are long, the passengers will take a quick dinner and will be off for a nice nap and by the time they wake up their flight will be just 1 hrs away from landing.
Most of the US flights operated by Air India are like this but for European we also operate in the morning and night time.

[ibcd]

to provide for an arrival time at the destination that would generate the greatest connectivity for onwards travel. for eg. not all passengers stay in London on a BOM-LHR flight. Most of them connect on to either other Europe or US destinations. An afternoon flight from BOM to LHR would not connect any of these passengers.

[jimmygill]

Because there is no night curfew at most Indian airports.

[kunguru]

Consider the high temperature and the altitude of the airport at the time of departure as maximumpayload is required for the profit from the flight