Originally Posted by Skyhawk121

This honestly has nothing to do with "Utah". The reason you end up having schedules like this is because that is how all of SkyWest's partners schedule the flights. They have early departures on regional aircraft into hubs so that the regional aircraft can feed mainline's planes in the hub. Works the same with the night flights, they want the regional aircraft moving people out of the hub into outstations at night so they can leave their planes at the hub.