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Anecdotally, the reverse is not true. West to East non-stop flights have been scarce as of late to many major cities, even from a major hub, compared to a few y
by NBJack 4y ago
Anecdotally, the reverse is not true. West to East non-stop flights have been scarce as of late to many major cities, even from a major hub, compared to a few years ago. Some flights in the same direction have sometimes been faster via Canada than staying the US.
I too am curious as to the shift.
- aaravchen 4y agoHaving had to do that quite frequently in the US, flights from West to East in my experience are much more likely to be non-stop hub to hub, or entirely unavailable. The time difference and regional/hopper flights catering to "commuters" who need to fly early morning and late evening doesn't play well with the time zone changes, so you can either have a bunch of hopper flights with full day layovers at each airport, or you can catch an early morning long haul flight from a major hub airport to another major hub airport. In fact I think I just saw an article (can't find the source) that talked about post pandemic the US domestic flights were much more focused on large volume hub-to-hub flights as a way of serving pre-pandemic customer levels despite understaffing.
- tssva 4y agoAn even quicker check showed 7 daily non-stop from San Francisco to my area and 4 non-stop from Portland. All of the Portland flights were red eye flights. I stopped counting but there were at least 30 1 stop flights from Portland with a layoff around an hour.