Originally Posted by PDXalways

pda.continental.com confirms Monday's schedule:

Ship 438 (737-900)
Arrives Mon Oct 3 at 12:02pm from IAH
Departs Tue Oct 4 at 11:40am to IAH (layover time: 23 hrs, 38 min)

Ship 278 (737-800)
Arrives Mon Oct 3 at 12:32pm from EWR
Departs Mon Oct 3 at 10:15pm to EWR (layover time: 9 hrs, 43 min)

Ship 204 (737-800)
Arrives Mon Oct 3 at 8:26pm from IAH
Departs Mon Oct 3 at 11:40pm to IAH (layover time: 3 hrs, 14 min)

Ship 237 (737-800)
Arrives Mon Oct 3 at 10:20pm from EWR
Departs Tue Oct 4 at 8:15am to EWR (layover time: 9 hrs, 55 min)

Ship 410 (737-900)
Arrives Mon Oct 3 at 11:52pm from IAH
Departs Tue Oct 4a t 6:00am to IAH (layover time: 6 hrs, 8 min)

And it's not just these two random days. This is the schedule (more or less) for September and October. Must be nice for the CO PDX ground crew -- no quick turn-arounds for any aircraft!

I should have been more clear in my original post about my primary point: That this fall's PDX schedule is different from normal. At all other times of the year, the morning flight from IAH arrives around 11:30am and immediately turns back to IAH around 12:20pm. As such, both the inbound and outback flights time perfectly with IAH connecting banks.

But for some odd reason, the uncharacteristically inefficient schedule (listed above) is in effect this fall instead. The only reason I can think of for such inefficiency is that its necessary for crew scheduling purposes. But then again, what makes this fall different than the other times of the year when the schedule makes more sense?