Originally Posted by
donotblink
I just read another
article worth sharing from View from the Wing.
Gary quotes someone from AA saying:
I don't understand this--is this because of cargo demand from Hawaii to the continental US? I would think there would be more demand in the other direction for cargo.
Prevailing winds (including velocity and direction), runway length and those winds, temperature, altitude and pressure (density altitude) and aircraft capabilities and restrictions (weight, including cargo, passengers, crew and fuel, runway length required for safe takeoff, crosswind component, etc.) and could all play a role in making those determinations. They’d be applied flight to flight, at or near time of departure.