Originally Posted by DMH1967

Yes the day flying is (when I was still there) almost entirely done by the guys from the east coast. Not sure about the schedules you saw, what I'm seeing for Thurs night this week are available to book through myidtravel:

LAX - JFK 22:55, 23:59

ONT - JFK 23:35 (this is usually built into the LAX pairings starting with a limo/dh to ONT)

LAX - BOS 20:50, 23:45

LAX - BUF 23:15

LAX - FLL 22:04

LAX - MIA 21:50

LAX - EWR 22:32

LAX - BDL 20:45


So that's 10 redeye departures in one night (9 if you don't count ONT, though I limo'd out there to start that sequence 4 times one month.)

Some other pairings will go LAX-SFO-JFK leaving around 1900 from LAX, doing the 2230(ish) departure from SFO. SLC, and LAS, were also built into pairings like that.

Basically with 100 lines in LAX, 10% of your lineholders start a redeye trip on this Thursday night.

At least that's how it was before I retired at the beginning of the year. I can't say things haven't changed, but I'm skeptical that they would have.