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Day 1 of 13 · Thursday 29 Oct
Warsaw → overnight flight
Evening departure from Chopin, land in Delhi at dawn.
Long-haul — aim to be there ~2.5 h before departure. No checked bag on the ticket; check what you’re taking.
LOT, Boeing 787-8, non-stop, 7 h 20 in the air. Seat 8A. Dinner and breakfast on board.
Delhi runs 4½ hours ahead of Warsaw. Try to sleep after dinner — landing is 00:40 Warsaw time.
On this day
What you are looking at, roughly in the order the day meets it.
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Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner — LOT’s long-haul flagship. Composite fuselage, electronically dimmable windows, and cabin pressure kept at a lower equivalent altitude than older jets — one reason people arrive less wrecked from it.
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The southern routing — with Russian and Ukrainian airspace closed, the Warsaw–Delhi track typically arcs over the Black Sea, the Caucasus and Central Asia before dropping across Pakistan into the Indus plain. Worth a look at the seat-back map: the detour is the geopolitics of the 2020s drawn as a line.
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The half-hour time zone — India runs on UTC+5:30, one of the few countries offset by 30 minutes, so Delhi is 4½ hours ahead of Warsaw. One time zone covers the whole country, decreed from Delhi; in the far east the sun rises before 5 a.m.
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Descent over the Gangetic plain — landing at 05:10, still dark. The approach crosses the Ganges plain, home to some four hundred million people — an unbroken carpet of sodium-orange towns roughly the size of Poland and Germany combined, and in early November usually a layer of haze already visible from the air.