Is it possible to travel back in time? No, not yet! However, a United Airlines flight offered to fly customers across time zones so that they could celebrate the New Year twice within hours. “Time travel is real,” wrote United Airlines in an Instagram post. “You only live once, but you can celebrate New Year’s Eve twice,” the airline had previously tweeted.
The premise of ‘time travel’ was straightforward. Flight UA200 was scheduled to depart from Guam at 7:35 a.m. on January 1 (Post-New Year’s celebrations) and arrive in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 6:50 p.m. on December 31, 2023, allowing passengers to celebrate New Year’s Eve twice.
What happened to United Airlines’ ‘Time Travel’ fight?
Time is critical for such ‘time travel’ flights because even a minor delay can derail all of the equations people strive to live by. This is precisely what happened on Flight UA200.
The flight was delayed for over six hours and finally took off from Guam at 1:49 p.m. on January 1. When it arrived in Honolulu, the clock had already struck midnight. The plane touched down at 12:34 a.m. on January 1, turning the excitement of celebrating New Year’s twice into 2024’s first major letdown.
