Different: Transatlantic Time Travel Flights In 2025

Who doesn’t love time travel? This is the concept of arriving at your destination airport before you have left, which is possible because the time zone change is greater than the block or scheduled time. It is particularly intriguing when applied to long-haul or transatlantic travel.
The most renowned examples involved Concorde. BA001 departed Heathrow at 10:30 and arrived in New York JFK at 09:25 local time, while AF002 left Paris CDG at 10:15 and arrived at 08:15. They are long gone.
Transatlantic time travel: 2025
Using Cirium Diio information to examine every scheduled flight between Europe, Africa, the Middle East, etc., and the Americas indicates just half a dozen examples exist in 2025, as summarized below in alphabetical airline order.
Readers may not like the inclusion of the Greenland example, as they may not consider it genuinely transatlantic. Nonetheless, it is there as it is so different, rarely discussed, and mainly uses the rare 37-seat Dash 8-200 (shown below) to an airport with a sub-4,000-foot runway. It has a maximum block time of 1h 50m.
When every time-traveling flight on the following routes is combined, there will be 387 departures in 2025. They are so rare that only one in every 833 transatlantic flights will operate this way.
Notice Icelandair from Keflavik to Seattle and Vancouver. Only one in five departures to Seattle will time travel this year, rising to almost a third for Vancouver.
Photo: Vincenzo Pace | Simple Flying
Airline Direction of route Departure and arrival times in 2015 (local); only time travel services are mentioned Comments Condor Frankfurt-Anchorage Various times, but 16:30-16:10 is the most common; arrive 20 minutes before you leave The route runs May 17-September 13; three-weekly A330neo Discover Frankfurt-Anchorage 13:20-12:50; arrive 30 minutes before you leave June 4-September 20; twice-weekly A330-300. The route started in June 2022 Finnair Helsinki-Seattle 16:40-16:00; arrive 40 minutes before you leave May 3-August 21; five weekly A330-300. The oneworld link only began in June 2022. Want tickets? Find them here! Icelandair* Keflavik-Kulusuk (Greenland) Various times, but 10:45-10:35 is the most common; arrive 10 minutes before you leave Frequencies vary considerably, but usually weekly to six weekly. While mainly on the Dash 8-200, the Q400 appears from June 2 until September 24 for greater summer uplift Icelandair Keflavik-Seattle 17:05-17:00; arrive 5 minutes before you leave. See the note above Served year-round, but time travel flights are winter-only (daily). When all flights are combined, the route is flown daily in the winter and up to triple daily in the summer. The newly delivered A321LR will begin on April 30, and all Seattle services are due to be on it this summer (this may not happen given limited aircraft) Icelandair Keflavik-Vancouver Two times that time travel: 17:15-16:55 (arrive 20 minutes before you leave) and 17:15-17:00 (15 minutes). See the note above Served year-round, but time travel flights are winter-only (four weekly). When all services are combined, the route is flown four weekly in the winter and six weekly in the summer. All flights are on the 737 MAX 8 * Operated by Air Iceland Connect
How about arriving when you leave?
Icelandair has had flights to Portland, Oregon, since 2015. A decade later, virtually every take-off will arrive after they leave, with the most common schedule seeing aircraft leave Iceland at 16:50 and arrive on the West Coast at 17:55 local time.
Given the additional block time compared to Icelandair’s Vancouver and Seattle routes, no Portland flight time travels. However, on just two occasions in 2025 (yes, twice!), passengers arrived at the same time as they left, based on the scheduled time.
On January 1 and 3 only, passengers on the 757-200ERs operating flight FI665 left Keflavik at 16:50 and got to Oregon at 16:50 local time.