About halfway around the globe from the prime meridian, the 0 degrees longitude line at Greenwich, England, is the IDL, which divides the Western and Eastern hemispheres.
And serves as the epicentre where each calendar day starts and finishes. Now that you’ve figured out all the complex information, let’s move on to the specifics of the flight.
A place on a flight on New Year’s Day is necessary if you wish to quantum jump between years, even though planes plainly pass the IDL during the rest of the year.
Consider this United Airlines flight that is scheduled to depart from the US territory of Guam on Wednesday, January 1.
It will depart the Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport tomorrow at 7.25 a.m. for a seven-hour, fifteen-minute flight to Honolulu, Hawaii.
The passengers will get the chance to ring in the New Year again when they land, even though those on board will have already done so the night before.
