In a message dated 11/18/2003 10:11:51 AM Pacific Standard Time, mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << I've been on a number of practically empty red-eyes over the years. My assumption is that they are basically repositioning flights to get the planes to the right cities for the next day's set of flights. They seem to be pretty much universally unpopular. >> jetBlue seems to make money on their redeyes. They start service everywhere with redeyes. AirTran is doing the same thing now