Originally Posted by
764toHI
Aside from demand, does the daytime departure add a logistical challenge with meeting curfew at SYD? I'm also surprised QF/AA does not operate a daytime LAX-SYD flight.
Exactly the point I was going to make regarding curfew. Current schedules into SYD only have 7 long hauls coming in after 8PM, likely for this reason. Any delay of 2.5+ hrs is going to mean having to hold the plane another ~7hrs. Then you have 250+ passengers in SYD that are stuck overnight, as well as the inbounds stuck in LAX.