For you marketing/planning folks and for general discussion:
Has US considered adding a late evening bank of flights for Caribbean services? Given that Star is going to be bringing in passengers and US will be the one Star member with a complete blanket on the Caribbean, it would make sense to add an evening bank of flights from CLT or, more likely, PHL to some of the bigger Caribbean spots.
Perhaps AUA, MBJ, STT, SXM, and CUN could get an evening service. The plane could depart PHL late enough to ensure all the passengers arrive from European destinations, overnight at the Caribbean destination, and then depart the Caribbean spot early enough to bring back folks to make their international connections (or to bring back folks to make east/northbound connections - leaving the afternoon flight for Europe).
I understand that there would be a crew overnight issue here, but perhaps the afternoon crew would do an out and back and the evening crew would get the overnight.
Thoughts?
Has US considered adding a late evening bank of flights for Caribbean services? Given that Star is going to be bringing in passengers and US will be the one Star member with a complete blanket on the Caribbean, it would make sense to add an evening bank of flights from CLT or, more likely, PHL to some of the bigger Caribbean spots.
Perhaps AUA, MBJ, STT, SXM, and CUN could get an evening service. The plane could depart PHL late enough to ensure all the passengers arrive from European destinations, overnight at the Caribbean destination, and then depart the Caribbean spot early enough to bring back folks to make their international connections (or to bring back folks to make east/northbound connections - leaving the afternoon flight for Europe).
I understand that there would be a crew overnight issue here, but perhaps the afternoon crew would do an out and back and the evening crew would get the overnight.
Thoughts?