Why is there no evening PDX-SNA flight??
Jul 5, 2014, 6:24 pm
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Why is there no evening PDX-SNA flight??
Looking to take the family to Disneyland next Fall and noticed that BUR, ONT, and LAX all have evening (5pm or later) flights from PDX, but the last flight to SNA is 3:35pm which doesn't work for those of us who work during during the day. The plan now is to fly into LAX and drive from there, but I am kinda surprised that an evening flight to a popular destination such as SNA doesn't exist (*fingers crossed* that there will be a favorable schedule change between now and then).
Jul 5, 2014, 9:24 pm
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Is there a later one from SEA?
Would it work with a connection (granted might need to leave PDX at the same time to make this
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Would it work with a connection (granted might need to leave PDX at the same time to make this
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Jul 5, 2014, 9:44 pm
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Jul 5, 2014, 10:29 pm
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Jul 5, 2014, 10:45 pm
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Interesting...that might be it....SNA just seems like the odd man out when you look at the late night departures from PDX (SAN, SFO, SJC, LAX, BUR, LAS, ONT, etc....but no SNA).
Jul 5, 2014, 10:49 pm
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Slot restricted would infer that a -800, which can fly all of the -700 routes, would be used to provide more capacity. So, probably due to a -800 not being available.
Jul 6, 2014, 1:59 am
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It's the same reason there's no 7a departure to PDX anymore.
Jul 6, 2014, 12:30 pm
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My bad, I was going off of memory when all of the SNA flights except 1 were 700's and the other was an 800. Should have looked at the schedule before posting.
Jul 7, 2014, 2:44 am
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I (used to) fly that one a lot. My understanding is AS pulled it because nobody was taking the 6 something AM flight SNA/PDX, so they couldn't justify flying down at night, crew overnight, etc. This happened 2-3 years ago and they gave the slots back to the airport authorities. It's good news that it was temporary, I didn't know that. But I can say the PDX/SNA evening flight was very rarely full and I think it's a flight I always got an upgrade on, every time.
Jul 7, 2014, 11:48 am
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SNA is both slot-restricted and "time-restricted" (i.e. no departures between 10pm and 6am or something similar). If AS couldn't fill an evening departure out of PDX and/or a morning flight to PDX, then that would be a very good reason to not have the flight. Too bad that they couldn't do a PDX-SMF-SNA or something like that with a 6pm departure out of PDX.
Jul 7, 2014, 12:04 pm
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SNA is both slot-restricted and "time-restricted" (i.e. no departures between 10pm and 6am or something similar). If AS couldn't fill an evening departure out of PDX and/or a morning flight to PDX, then that would be a very good reason to not have the flight. Too bad that they couldn't do a PDX-SMF-SNA or something like that with a 6pm departure out of PDX.