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Old Oct 30, 2023 | 12:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Repooc17
Airlines do not particularly like TATL day time flights, because at least on one end, the plane is sitting overnight. When planes idle, not only no money being made, actually cost airlines money.

This is a large reason why there are so many TATL red-eye flights ex-North America.
Ah, yes, of course. A UA plane that arrives in CDG at 9:30 pm is not going anywhere that evening. The best one could hope for would be a 7 am departure to the US.

However,

Flights to/from South America tend to be red-eye both ways and thus planes remain unused for 10-12 hours in places like EZE, GRU and such. If UA can afford to keep a plane unused for 10-12 hours in Argentina, why not also in France?
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