Flying to Canada with four-year-old - day or night flight?

[Twoddle]

I intend to take ds to Canada in August, to stay with friends. It'll be just him and me, so I was thinking I'd take a night flight as he'll (hopefully) sleep ... but will he/I be too tired when we arrive?

Wondering what the best times for flights there and back might be. The first time we've been out of Europe ...

(Time difference: they'll be five hours behind.)

Thanks.

Take a day flight going and a night flight to come home (that's normally how the schedules work anyway). He might sleep a bit on the flight, then when you get there he'll just go to bed.
Generally it is much easier going back than ahead timewise, e.g. coming home will be harder than the flight over.
Have fun, I live in Canada, it's great!

Most flights leave morning or early afternoon, so just take one of those. You'll arrive in Canada late afternoon, and the adrenalin will keep him up until a reasonable bedtime.

On the way back, the flights leave in the evening, and you arrive back in the UK next morning.

The biggest problem with jetlag is waking up at 4am for the first few days.

Yeah, what shubiedoo said, there are no night flights to Canada. I like the day flights back, but only Air Canada runs them, and only from Toronto.

Are you going to Toronto or Montreal? (Or some other smaller place that's 5 hours out?) We go every summer.

Oh, IME, BA is much better than Air Canada, though, as it has seat-back television, which means there will be at least one appropriate TV channel for your child to stare at, transfixed, for the flight.

ST is right about the early morning wakings when you get to Canada. Although I found by about your kid's age, my DS1 could be talked out of them a bit ("when we get there, you will be confused about day and night. If you wake up, stick your head out, if nobody else is up, go back to sleep")

Thank you all. That's really helpful.