Sitting Comfortably? A Look At The USAs Few Overnight Red-Eye Regional Jet Flights

Summary Only three regional jet routes in the US have overnight flights in August. Come October, San Francisco-Monterrey will have such RJ service for the first time. Tucson-Chicago O'Hare, which has not had overnight RJ flights before, will join in December.

Few aircraft types elicit as much negative response from passengers as regional jets , although I'm fond of them. More specifically, they dislike the 50-seat, single-class, cramped CRJ200 and Embraer ERJ145, where they might be unable to stand up or store carry-on bags. It is somewhat different for larger equipment, although the sense of small space is still present for many.

While passengers’ anxiety might rise further for overnight RJ flights, US readers might be pleased that very few exist. Overnight RJ flights in the US: August Using Cirium to analyze 209,000 RJ-operated US flights indicates they'll operate 1,400+ routes in August. Of these, just three have overnight flights .

I define this as any scheduled passenger flight departing before or after midnight and arriving after 04:00. The following three routes have previously had overnight RJ services. However, regular red-eye operations ended in 2018 (not 2019).

Routes Departure time (local) Arrival time (local) Airline/aircraft in August Comments Fresno to Chicago O'Hare (RJs return on August 19) 23:59 06:12+1 United Express (SkyWest); E175 All flights end for the season on October 25 but return on December 19 (but on the A319/737-700) for Christmas and New Year .