Alan could feel the fatigue of Africa and the eight-hour flight behind his eyes and in his joints, his ravaged hands.

Still, he thought, it was strange to come so far and have only the aftereffects of an eight-hour flight to prove you were somewhere different.

It's an eight-hour flight, and six hours behind GMT, so you can fly out at breakfast and arrive for morning coffee.

"When you've come off an eight-hour trans-Atlantic flight and you're exhausted, the last thing you want to do is stand on line," said.

A Navy spokesman said the eight-hour flight had been lucky in avoiding the killer storms that often sweep Antarctica in winter.

Her next to last leg was an eight-hour flight from Kiritimati to Hawaii.

An eight-hour flight to Antigua, a three-minute drive to the resort's dock then a seven-minute transfer by catamaran, and you are there.

With a new baby and a five-year-old, though, skiing wasn't an option and the Caribbean was a rather alarming eight-hour flight away.

The pilots braved snow, cold of 65 below zero, high winds and pitch-black polar darkness in the eight-hour flight.

A nice eight-hour flight would give you plenty of time to renew your acquaintance with him.