Overnight flights

[Razor2]

Its not a bug...but its somewhat unrealistic:

Overnight flights are considered normal for some ops, like EU to middle east. Most flights depart very late in the evening and arrive very early local time. The demand in AWS is however not correctly modeled for these flights, as they are considered the very same, as a night flight inside Europe (which is not very accepted)...

Example:
AMS to TLV both KLM and El Al fly this way.

[LemonButt]

If you take off before 2300 local time you are hitting the prime hours for takeoff.  Overnight flights or "red eyes" are very common and actually very popular if you're flying against the rotation of the Earth (east)--are you saying that red eye flights going west aren't modelled correctly?

[slither360]

No, when flying from South Asia/Middle East/North Africa, almost all international flights depart from 2300-0800. In fact, in India, this is required in some airports, since that is the only time customs are open

[EYguy]

Yeah, that's crazy... I mean, it is how it work IRL but you can't have it working this way in AWS.
I.e.: Etihad has flight to Milan leaving a 01:50 in the morning but if I did anything like this in AWS I would not fill the flight, even though it is usually carrying 75% of its capacity.

Same story for red-eye flights from Europe to "near East": leaving late at night and arriving there around 05:00 o'clock in the morning but this is not working out in DotM (flying one of those routes, incidentally!).

Edo