Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan - Our Dear Eskimo Has Diarrhea

Someone, please please change his diet. He has sprayed a loss of the 1K booking bonus and a loss of the F companion ticket all at the same time, eff. 01 Aug 12.

First we talked about "chips." Then, perhaps the "hatchet." But this is just really a load of runny crap, spraying all over us. One sucker punch after another.

I may be too far for the Immodium to get there in time. Some of you are closer. Before the next set of cramps.

Alaska has really outdone themselves with enhancements since I stopped flying the Eskimo. Now I have no good backup airline! :p

Alaska has really outdone themselves with enhancements since I stopped flying the Eskimo. Now I have no good backup airline! :p

That is a good thing about the SF Bay Area. I don't feel like I'm cheating if I don't fly UA or AS anymore.

Seems like they're not the only one with diarrhea. Some people keep dropping the same crappy threads all over this forum. :rolleyes:

Someone, please please change his diet. He has sprayed a loss of the 1K booking bonus and a loss of the F companion ticket all at the same time, eff. 01 Aug 12.

Are these "chips" from BAC/FIA or from AS? Me thinks your rage may be misguided.

Are these "chips" from BAC/FIA or from AS? Me thinks your rage may be misguided.

AS. Not BAC/FIA.

Alaska has really outdone themselves with enhancements since I stopped flying the Eskimo. Now I have no good backup airline! :p

Based in SEA, I used to fly 100-110K BIS miles/year with UA and another 40-50K with AS as my backup. Was planning on maybe 25K with AS in 2012, but I think I'll end up with 15K. 2013? Could be 5K or less. Losing a good backup airline sucks.

They're just not that into us. It's OK. I can replicate a lot of the flying on VX and WN, plus maybe B6 for some stuff.

I have to wonder if the chip chip chip™ might be a precursor to an AA/DL merger. They both probably lust very badly over AS's West Coast presence.

I have to wonder if the chip chip chip™ might be a precursor to an AA/DL merger. They both probably lust very badly over AS's West Coast presence.

Just like AA lusted over AirCal's network. Or Reno Air's network. Or TWA's network.

Seems like they're not the only one with diarrhea. Some people keep dropping the same crappy threads all over this forum. :rolleyes:

Amen.

They're just not that into us. It's OK. I can replicate a lot of the flying on VX and WN, plus maybe B6 for some stuff.

I have to wonder if the chip chip chip™ might be a precursor to an AA/DL merger. They both probably lust very badly over AS's West Coast presence.

AS doesn't even lust over its own West Coast presence. Its traditional route network has gone quite thin. It is mostly "still there" but the capacity and frequency is way down.

I have to wonder if the chip chip chip™ might be a precursor to an AA/DL merger.Why would Alaska want to merge with anybody? ALK market cap is $2.7B. What other airline could afford to offer enough of a premium over current share price to convince Alaska to merge/sell?

AS doesn't even lust over its own West Coast presence. Its traditional route network has gone quite thin. It is mostly "still there" but the capacity and frequency is way down.

Remember the "West Most" schedule? lol...

Remember the "West Most" schedule? lol...Remember when UA used to fly real planes between SEA and LAX?

AS doesn't even lust over its own West Coast presence. Its traditional route network has gone quite thin. It is mostly "still there" but the capacity and frequency is way down.

Part of that is VX going through half a billion and change driving fares down in SFO/LAX.

Part of that is AS finding money elsewhere. They were never going to be able to expand or give good ROIC flying SEA-SFO/LAX 12x a day.

And I would say Hawaii is most certainly a West Coast market.

And all that being said, they've been willing to try a lot out of SJC (they actually fly to more markets than WN does there), and are game for SAN too. So it's not like they've blown off the West Coast; they've changed like the market's changed.

Part of that is VX going through half a billion and change driving fares down in SFO/LAX.

Part of that is AS finding money elsewhere. They were never going to be able to expand or give good ROIC flying SEA-SFO/LAX 12x a day.

And I would say Hawaii is most certainly a West Coast market.

And all that being said, they've been willing to try a lot out of SJC (they actually fly to more markets than WN does there), and are game for SAN too. So it's not like they've blown off the West Coast; they've changed like the market's changed.

I'm not disputing that. The issue is the "lust" over the west coast presence. Any one of them could have expanded to HI to pick up the AQ slack. They didn't want to.

Remember when UA used to fly real planes between SEA and LAX?

Sadly, yes. Which is why I don't fly UA to LAX.

They're just not that into us. It's OK. I can replicate a lot of the flying on VX and WN, plus maybe B6 for some stuff.

I have to wonder if the chip chip chip™ might be a precursor to an AA/DL merger. They both probably lust very badly over AS's West Coast presence.

I have pondered whether the recent cutbacks, combined with company's extreme reluctance to invest any money in the hard product, is a sign that a merger is the works. Not sure how it would work financially, and I'd certainly hate to see it happen. Not only for the sake of AS employees, but also from a passenger's perspective. Look how long it took DL to get its operation back to running smoothly after the NW merger.

I have pondered whether the recent cutbacks, combined with company's extreme reluctance to invest any money in the hard product, is a sign that a merger is the works. Not sure how it would work financially, and I'd certainly hate to see it happen. Not only for the sake of AS employees, but also from a passenger's perspective. Look how long it took DL to get its operation back to running smoothly after the NW merger.

I really don't think so, as it just makes their profits and market cap higher and higher.

I really don't think so, as it just makes their profits and market cap higher and higher.

Reminds me of a scene in Office Space...

Didn't we just lose some DL Economy Comfort perks on domestic US flights? (It looks like we can't even buy it discounted anymore.)

Didn't we just lose some DL Economy Comfort perks on domestic US flights? (It looks like we can't even buy it discounted anymore.)

Yes- I still need to write AS & DL about that one :td: