red eye flight
Overnight air travel
A red eye flight is an overnight airplane trip, typically departing late at night and arriving early the next morning.
The name refers to the bloodshot eyes passengers often have after sleeping poorly in transit.
Red eyes are common on long routes where travelers want to maximize time at their destination: I took the red eye from LA to New York and went straight to the office.
- overnightSpanning evening to morning
- airportAviation passenger facility
- departureAct of going away
- boarding passAirline entry document
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
sleepless · sleep deprived · terminal · layover · boarding · turbulence · caffeine · connecting · delay · business traveler · jet lag · baggage · tarmac · dawn · landing · cramped · overhead bin · pillow
- travel experiencesroad trip, turbulence, jet lag, scenic drive, missed connection
- nighttimemidnight, nightfall, night sky, nighttime, starry sky
- late nightmidnight, night owl, night owls, insomnia, witching hour
- ocean crossingsAtlantic crossing, transatlantic, transpacific, passage, crossing
- predawnfirst light, dawn, twilight, cockcrow, small hours