Quote Originally Posted by Saab2000 View Post
Upper level winds have been extreme lately. That’s not uncommon in winter but they seem higher than normal. Probably not in real life but it seems that way. I flew to Las Vegas last week and it was about 4:10 in the air from Chicago. Thankfully, it wasn’t bumpy. In the other direction you’ll arrive an hour early.
Two years ago I did my standard business flight, LAS-BWI and the return trip was almost 7 hours because of upper level winds. That long in a 737 is trying. At least my employer covers my early bird and I had an aisle. I know SWA is doing Maui and Oahu, but I had a military booked flight about a decade ago that had a chartered 737 from LA to Honolulu. Nope.