Originally Posted by
vail
I also noticed the flight is an early morning flight with the return later in the day.
It used to arrive late and stay overnight.
I guess they need the aircraft somewhere else.
Not for the last several years. It used to leave LAX around 5 or 6 pm, but for at least the last 2 seasons, maybe more, it's been a late morning / early afternoon departure from LAX. Sometime around noon, I believe, because it got into EGE around 3.
And while the LAX-EGE plane itself may have stayed overnight, the EGE-LAX flight itself never did. For years it was an early evening flight back to LAX. Used to be about 6pm, and then maybe late afternoon more recently.
As you point out though, the morning flight to EGE and early afternoon flight back to LAX are new times.