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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like weekend runs to paris
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How many nights total (including the overnight to Europe)?[/quote]
3 nights including travel
Overnight Friday 
Saturday all day
Sunday day
[b]Overnight Sunday[/b]
Back to work on Monday[/quote]

What exactly is "Overnight Sunday"?  There are no overnight flights on the westbound flight from Europe to the US- the latest flight to DC leaves Paris at 5 PM, and that isn't an every day flight.  Reasonably then you could stay in the city until maybe 1:30 or so before leaving.[/quote]

I think it's like a 7pm departure on sunday. Three trick is to get really good sleep on the plane. [/quote]

No, as stated in the message you replied to, the late departures to Dulles on Air France and United (on the days they operate, which is mostly the summer schedule I think) both leave at 5 PM, and arrive at Dulles at about 7:30 PM EDT.  I don't understand your strategy to "get really good sleep on the plane" on a flight that leaves that early.  And then what do you do when you arrive?  Stay up overnight?  If I slept even 2 hours on the plane I would be up until probably 3 or 4 AM, and then maybe get 3 hours sleep.

I think you are confusing this type of flight with the ones from the middle east, some of which depart around midnight, and are much longer (14 hours from say Doha versus 8 from Paris), and thus arrive at 8 or 9 AM.  On that type of true red eye you could certainly time this all out well.  But I don't see how it's manageable on what's essentially a late afternoon flight that arrives at 7:30 PM.[/quote]

DP but I don't understand what the issue is. You are coming home and getting hours back because of time change. You don't need a red eye. Just take the afternoon direct flight, get in around dinner time, eat dinner and go to bed early since you will be tired. Paris is not enough of a time difference to require any other approach. I like the red eye on the way over because it allows me to get a full day there when I arrive and not lose an entire day to travel. I like the 6:45 Air France out of Dulles -- they do a quick dinner service and keep the cabin lights low, I never have trouble falling asleep early and can get 4-5 hours, and then you get into CDG just after 8, can drop of luggage and spend a day doing low key activities like museum/cafe/parks, then catch a quick nap before dinner. Very little jet lag this way. Coming home is even easier.

I don't understand why people are having trouble with this. It's among the easier international flights to take in terms of time change and jet lag. We're not talking about going to Australia or India or something.[/quote]

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