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My Highly Productive Daytime Flight To London On JetBlue

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 27, 2025 10 Comments

a plane on the runway

For the first time in my life, I took a daytime transatlantic flight, flying from New York to London on JetBlue. It was a very productive and pleasant flight and arriving late in London helped me to go right to bed and get an excellent rest that night.

A Daytime Flight To London On JetBlue

I’m not a fan of the Dunkin’ coffee onboard, so I stopped for a cortado before my flight in Terminal 5 (sadly, the Intelligentsia Coffee in the TWA Hotel has permanently closed).

Walking through the Mint (business class) cabin, we found our seats onboard.

a child standing in a doorway

seats in an airplane with seats and windows

a boy and girl sitting in an airplane

The legroom on JetBlue is excellent…32 inches.

a person's feet in a seat

JetBlue offers nice blankets and an amenity kit in “Core” (its name for economy class).

a blue blanket on a table

Breakfast was served after takeoff and is now a cold meal, with a choice between a turkey and brie croissant sandwich or overnight oats, both served with watermelon and coconut yogurt topped with citrus fruit.

The sandwich was good…the overnight oats (topped in cinnamon and berries) were excellent…the sort of breakfast I would make at home.

a paper cup of coffee on a napkin

food in a tray on a tray

food in a tray on a plane

Dessert also came with breakfast…a chocolate ice cream sandwich from Nightingale.

a hand holding a small brown bag of chocolate

The kids spent the flight watching movies and were very well-behaved. My plan was to spend the entire flight working thanks to free high-speed wi-fi onboard and that was quite successful, with the internet only briefly cutting out at a couple of points during the flight.

a boy and girl sitting in an airplane

a screen on a plane

a group of people sitting in an airplane with monitors

Unfortunately, the pre-arrival snack left so much to be desired. Despite arriving after 9:00 pm into London, only a small loaf of banana cake was offered before landing…

a cup of coffee and a loaf of bread on a table

However, I came prepared with nuts and apples, which we all enjoyed:

a can of nuts and an apple

The downside to this flight plan was that I had to take an even shorter redeye from Southern California (we flew out of Ontario instead of Los Angeles International) to get to this flight, so it’s not like I fully avoided an overnight flight.

But I went to bed at midnight in London and woke up refreshed eight hours later…that makes me more likely to travel this way again, at least if I am flying on JetBlue.

I’ll have much more to say about the flight in my full review but wanted to underscore here how pleasant it is to fly across the Atlantic on a daytime flight. JetBlue continues to shine with excellent food (despite only offering cold meals), fast free wi-fi, and extra legroom in economy class.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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10 Comments

  1. Peter Reply
    May 27, 2025 at 11:23 am

    Curious where in T5 you got the cortado! Starbucks?

    Daytime flights to London are one of the reasons why I value having some level of status with AA. T8 is easy to fly out of with the family and extra legroom MCE seats for the whole family at the time of booking are more than sufficient for this ~6 hour daytime flight. I do value the ability to fly on a wide body aircraft (both for perception of space as well as a 10-15 minute savings over the narrow body) but wi-fi on B6 is terrific. Also value having lounge access versus no options at T5.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      May 27, 2025 at 11:37 am

      No, a place called World Bean.

  2. Steve Reply
    May 27, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    Wish there were more daytime eastbound TA flights…it’s a great way to beat jet lag.

    • Antwerp Reply
      May 27, 2025 at 12:06 pm

      Most love them – but the reality is it’s a terrible utilization of aircraft for the airline and why the daytime flights (in my experience) seem to command a premium in fares.

      • Matthew Klint Reply
        May 27, 2025 at 12:09 pm

        @Antwerp is correct – the plane sits overnight in London. Not efficient.

        • derek Reply
          May 27, 2025 at 12:24 pm

          British Airways might he able to use their planes for red eye to India.

          Jet Blue should see if they could get fifth freedom flights from LHR to TLV Israel. A 11 pm departure might arrive in TLV around 7 am. El Al used to have LHR JFK fifth freedom rights decades ago. So did Pakistan and Air India. Egypt air flew from Paris to JFK.

    • Mano Reply
      May 27, 2025 at 5:07 pm

      Deeply missing AA 90, the morning departure from ORD-LHR, which was cut last year. Hoping that their ramp-up at ORD and perhaps the introduction of the A321XLR brings that back. We’re so far away from the era when AA’s tagline was “We Mean Business in Chicago.”

  3. JohnSD Reply
    May 27, 2025 at 1:14 pm

    I wanted to take my Dad, an 85 year old diabetic to London after my Mom died, but was concerned about the jet lag effect on his body. British Airways had (and still has) an AM flight from BOS to LHR -= what a difference that made! I got him up in Boston around 3:30 Eastern, he was in bed by 8 PM Eastern – no issues at all over the following 10 days. I love the AM departures

  4. SMR Reply
    May 27, 2025 at 2:33 pm

    LHR – TLV is very well served already and I doubt airlines are looking to start new service there right now

  5. Rodney White Reply
    May 27, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    The only reason I don’t fly economy anymore is seat comfort. I can’t afford premium cabin prices too often so I stay home now. Food, entertainment, fancy lighting mean nothing to me squeezed into a seat made for midgets. 32″ pitch may be better than some but it is hardly “excellent”. And there is a big difference between sitting with 2 small children and sitting with 2 more adults. Your seating pictures look like something the airlines would produce to create the illusion of spaciousness.

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