Passengers on Hawaiian Airlines flight got to kiss 2017 goodbye twice
Back to the Future is real, just not the way our '80s selves imagined it would be.
Last night, Hawaiian Airlines Flight HA446 took off in Auckland, New Zealand in 2018, and arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2017, proving that time travel is real -- sort of.
The flight technically left Auckland at 12:05 am on January 1st, before arriving in Honolulu at 9:45 am December 31st, having crossed multiple time zones.
The flight was originally supposed to leave ten minutes earlier in 2017, but delays pushed it forward into 2018. Auckland is 23 hours ahead of Honolulu.
Shout out to airline delays, without which this weird achievement would have never been possible. And congratulations to the people traveling from New Zealand to sunny Honolulu for New Years. Who are you? And can all of us in the deep frozen North have a spot on your couch?
Thanks in advance.
Heather was the Web Trends reporter at Mashable NYC. Prior to joining Mashable, Heather wrote regularly for UPROXX and GOOD Magazine, was published in The Daily Dot and VICE, and had her work featured in Entertainment Weekly, Jezebel, Mic, and Gawker. She loves small terrible dogs and responsible driving. Follow her on Twitter @wear_a_helmet.
