FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Least crowded NW, AS, or Continental flights?

Oct 6, 2003 | 2:50 am

#6

SEA_lurker

Join Date: Mar 2003

Location: either on a trans-Pac, or on an Amtrak

Programs: Amtrak (AGR) Select, AA Plat, DL Gold, Shangri-La Golden Circle Jade, HHonors Silver, BonVoy Gold

Posts: 67

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Paul3456:
The NW red-eye flights that leave the west coast at midnight-2am Sunday mornings bound for MSP & DTW seem to be always very full.</font>

I wonder why! Leisure travelers would be expected to come back from wherever they were over the weekend on Sunday evenings, not Sunday mornings. And I can't imagine much biz-traveler traffic on Sat. evening / Sun. morning either.

Re. this thread in general:
SEA-MSP 1 AM departure is seldom full and usually no problem to u/g regardless of day of week, but a couple of weeks ago (a Thursday morning) I was surprised to find out that it was completely full in both classes.