Originally Posted by
Larry in TN
No, it isn't.
Less than 10% of the ORD 737 flying for October has a red-eye leg. LAX and SFO has a lot more. East coast hubs, less. It's been over two years since I flew a red-eye that I didn't trade into.
I spent 15 years flying night freight. Even when I do fly a red-eye at UAL, it is so much easier. One catered leg then off to the hotel.
Night freight isn't bad when you're 30 because it's relatively easy to sleep all day. By the time you're 45 you're waking up early afternoon and unable to get back to sleep.
Sort of. In SFO we have a bunch of trips that start at 1700 and are two leg segments. IE: SFO-SEA, sit for 2 hours, SEA-EWR. They get away with it because it lands at 0457, technically not in an all-nighter for a West coast crew. Then you day sleep, go back to West coast before flying ANOTHER all-nighter in day 3.
And United’s catering makes it worse, not better
