Southwest red eye flights
May 8, 2017, 6:33 pm
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Yes, when they decide to start flights to/from Hawaii. They will need both redeyes and they will need to allow double connections. The redeye flights will be from Hawaii to West Coast as well as West Coast to mid/Eastern hub airports.
May 8, 2017, 6:55 pm
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May 8, 2017, 7:04 pm
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May 8, 2017, 10:44 pm
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I doubt there will be any dramatic operational changes until after the first of the year. The next schedule extension little more tha a week away will open the schedule through the holidays. I doubt there will be any changes until Southwest digests the new system and considers what to do next.
May 9, 2017, 8:11 am
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What ancient system was WN using before that prevented Redeye flights? I heard it had to do with something where the system wouldn't support flights that departed and arrived on different dates?
I wonder who designed that system...
I wonder who designed that system...
May 9, 2017, 8:35 am
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Really doesn't matter whom designed, it was short sighted for sure and perhaps never thought necessary when they were smaller. However, like the 1999 limitation of the Y2K rollover craze, it most certainly fixable if that's what they wanted to do.
May 9, 2017, 10:19 am
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I doubt there will be any dramatic operational changes until after the first of the year. The next schedule extension little more tha a week away will open the schedule through the holidays. I doubt there will be any changes until Southwest digests the new system and considers what to do next.
May 9, 2017, 10:21 am
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WN has had many flights that depart and arrive on different dates for years - especially west-to-east flights arriving ~1am or later. There was a thread once trying to find the latest scheduled arrival and, IIRC, it was after 2am.
May 9, 2017, 10:48 am
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Yes agree here. I don't think the limitation had to do with flying over midnight. From what I heard, the now "old" system had some sort of batch job that ran every night after the last arrival to prep the system for the next day. That was the main issue with them not starting redeyes. I also believe redeye flying wasn't in FA and pilot contracts until this last round of negotiations.
May 9, 2017, 1:05 pm
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Yes agree here. I don't think the limitation had to do with flying over midnight. From what I heard, the now "old" system had some sort of batch job that ran every night after the last arrival to prep the system for the next day. That was the main issue with them not starting redeyes. I also believe redeye flying wasn't in FA and pilot contracts until this last round of negotiations.
May 9, 2017, 1:07 pm
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May 9, 2017, 5:22 pm
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Im assuming that's scheduled times and not due to delays? Last year I was going from HOU to BWI and because of storms we finally left at 1am CT and landed at 5am ET. I'm glad they didn't have to cancel that one just because of some lame computer issue!
