The McDonald’s Breakfast At Any Cost Calculator can roughly determine the best location to fly to to get access to the McDonald’s breakfast menu, based on flight time and whether it will be breakfast time once you arrive.
It is perhaps better explained with an example: it’s 1700h (5 PM) in Tokyo, and you want a McMuffin, but the breakfast menu isn’t going to open for another 13 hours. You can’t afford to wait that long, but where else can you go? The answer, as this tool will tell you, is Honolulu. You’ll arrive around 0616 local time, ready to stride into a McDonald’s and get breakfast. In Tokyo, it’s only 0116, and you would have had to wait hours longer for your McMuffin.
The code is very simple, and the time zone calculations don’t account for DST (since they don’t use the date at all). Flight times are calculated based on latitude and longitude coordinates, a distance formula I got from Wikipedia, and an estimated average flight speed. You can use this tool for times other than breakfast, but it will get confused if midnight lies between the start and finish times.
This is not useful to me until you also optimise prices.
Both the cost of the return flight, and the cost variation of McDonalds breakfast across the world. Also any time that needs to be taken off work.
If the longer duration flight ends up costing me significantly less, I’m gonna go for that.
I’d be happy to add that functionality, provided you finance my research into international McDonald’s breakfast prices.
I only fly first class, of course.
This is incredible! I will use it at any time I need mediocre entertainment while on the computer, and virtually no other option is available! It’s that good!
http://blog.dagoosh.com/post/2009/09/22/furthest-point-from-mcdonalds.aspx