While I understand your data shows people don't like flights after 8:00pm, I wonder if your schedule optimization “algorigthm” is able to factor in certain market specific, possibly even day specific, data. The new schedule has only two flights between LAX-LAS after 6:00pm; not that long ago, there were four flights after 6:00pm.
I assume your data shows that only two flights optimizes use of the aircraft, crew, etc., but is the software sophisticated enough to realize (or be told) that Southern Californian's love to go to Vegas for the weekend? It may very well be that the traffic doesn't support more than two flights after 6:00pm Monday-Thursday; however, as a regular weekly LAX-LAS Friday commuter on WN for over 6 years, I can't help but feel you are leaving people (and revenue) on the ground by having only two post 6:00pm flights on Friday night. I realize modifying the schedule for one specific weekday may not be viable... but I wonder at times if our 21st century dependence on computers (not limited only to WN) takes human logic out of the equation...
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