In 1977, under the days of airline regulation, the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Western Airlines the transcontinental southern route from Los Angeles to Miami to compete against National Airlines who held the other transcontinental southern route. Western's flight was a red-eye from Los Angeles, arriving at MIA at 0600 or so, and was not very popular with horrible traffic loads. They later added Nassau to the route, flying from Miami to Nassau, back to Miami, and then on to Los Angeles. They dropped the route after deregulation took effect in 1978.