A few yrs ago when speaking with a CO exec about something else, we discussed TLV and I said that I was told by a few supervisors at TWA that the TLV route was their best Profit wise and alot had to do with the Cargo end of it, and that they could fill the plane with cargo and pay for the flight.

Of cause it costs more to fly a plane today and CO isnt using the old 747-2s but he agreed and said CO was basically in those same shoes and thats why it paid for them to send the flight out from NY on YK morn.

that said if you had checked the loads on this flight in previous yrs you would hav eseen it was almost completely empty of passengers, but since you did that I guess I didnt have to mention that Also do U really think CO would send an almost empty flight just so that it could operate the 91 back that same night,I dont. If CO wasnt gonna clear a nice profit on both it wouldnt pay to run the 10 nor the 91 on 9/18