Prayer on the Plane

While flying east and crossing over so many time zones so quickly, the time for morning, afternoon, and evening prayers come up very quickly. I did pray on the plane and was thankfully facing east while sitting in my seat. Taking the “great circle route” between New York and London meant that we flew close to the southern tip of Greenland so while local time on the plane well into the flight was about 11 p.m., it was still almost light outside and not quite night yet.

Nonetheless, I'm informed that those that live at higher latitudes, especially where the sun doesn't set, utilize time for sunset at other locations (i.e. for those in Alaska, the Seattle times are used) so even though it was still not dark at 11 p.m. where we were on the plane, it was time to pray and so I did.