Why did airlines cut late evening flts?

[flight-crew]

I just realized that almost every airline out there has cut all their late evening flights. But they seemed to have kept all the really early AM departures. You really can't go anywhere after about 6 - 7pm at most airports (earlier at some airports). This sucks for people who are night owls or just have the need to travel at night. And since cargo jumpseats aren't available, we're kind of hosed on traveling at night.

Delta/ASA/Comair seem to be the only ones who have kept late departures. I see that they still have a lot of late departures out of both ATL and CVG.

I wonder how long it will take until we get back to pre-9/11 schedules and airlines have late evening flights again?

 

[LearLove]

Why the late nite flights cut.....

because were afraid to fly in the dark.

Actually most of the newest cuts are due to the lower bookings due to the war. Here's a link to US Airways press release.


http://www.usairways.com/about/press/nw_03_0327.htm