Glossary
Airport curfew
Reviewed September 2026
Night-flying bans at noise-sensitive airports — no movements during defined overnight hours at London City, Zurich, Sydney and many others. Curfews shape long-haul timetables: departures bunch before the cutoff, delayed flights risk overnight diversion or cancellation, and the last bank out of a curfewed hub carries more misconnection consequence than the same delay at 2pm. When we pick connections, curfew exposure is one of the quiet variables in the choice.
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