I've been seeing EXTREMELY high loads on CO lately in a few markets. For peak days on EWR-SFO, flights can even booked up over a week in advance.

For example:

On Sunday 10/24 (10 days from now), there are four (4) EWR-SFO flights on CO, and among those four there is a cumulative A1 and Y1 available for sale that entire day. That's a grand total of two (2) seats for sale that entire day on CO's non-stops EWR-SFO (both are on the morning flights -- 1 each). That includes coach and first class. Even the EWR-SJC is packed (A1 Y1) on that day.

The UA flights on the same day all have 9+ seats for sale in Y, and some open F.

I've seen this quite a bit with CO flights as of late, especially into SFO.

Question: What are business travellers doing who can't plan their trips that far out? I mean, we're 10 days out on this and you can't fly non-stop to SFO from CO's EWR hub on CO! If this were the day of or the day before, I'd understand, but this far out seems a bit much for a non-holiday.

Are CO flyers moving to UA or other carriers? Or connecting?

Is CO losing out on potential revenue (i.e., should they bring back the late 7:45 p.m. flight)? Or are they better off flying as is and turning away the pax who presumably have to book elsewhere?