Alaska adds to SLC again..... BOI, LAS, SFO
Dec 20, 2013, 7:54 am
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Alaska adds to SLC again..... BOI, LAS, SFO
Well its obvious war now between AS and DL.
AS has now jumped in on SLC-BOI, LAS, and SFO.
Here is the pr.
http://splash.alaskasworld.com/Newsr...220_050413.asp
Anways what are DL's response?
More SEA
AS has now jumped in on SLC-BOI, LAS, and SFO.
Here is the pr.
http://splash.alaskasworld.com/Newsr...220_050413.asp
Anways what are DL's response?
More SEA
Dec 20, 2013, 8:25 am
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While SFO is a weak schedule. I am loving that it will be 3 hours later then the last Delta flight. Now I can work all day and still catch the 8:35 pm flight home.
Dec 20, 2013, 8:30 am
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Dec 20, 2013, 9:19 am
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Dec 20, 2013, 10:02 am
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I love popcorn. I can eat popcorn sometime. Only 1 time a week.
They will so extremely upset again.
Dec 20, 2013, 10:40 am
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DL will undoubtedly fire back...Alaska only has so many aircraft to continue this back n forth. Delta has over 700 aircraft, Alaska has 126 + another 51 with Horizon. Alaska will eventually lose.
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Dec 20, 2013, 10:55 am
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Adding 4 flight pairs at SLC doesn't even amount to a fart in a strong breeze. This isn't war, it's more like a border skirmish. From what I can tell, they're cycling one Q400 from BOI to SLC, through LAS a couple of times and flying it back to BOI. And they're adding a late SFO-SLC flight that heads back to SFO in the morning. I can see the BOI and SFO service doing decently with business travelers. The LAS flights are an open question. Is there really that much demand for O&D SLC-LAS service? I don't know, but I tend to doubt it.
This seems to be a very measured response.
This seems to be a very measured response.
Dec 20, 2013, 11:20 am
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Delta charges quite a bit on those SLC-BOI flights, and this will keep them honest on the pricing.
SLC-SFO will get a fair amount of business traffic given its timing.
The only one I'm not sure about is SLC-LAS, that won't be a high-yield route.
Dec 20, 2013, 11:31 am
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The actual O&D is probably double that (or more) if you count the people who drive it, although it obviously doesn't matter in this case.
I hope DL chooses to restart SLC-BLI for their next move.
Dec 20, 2013, 11:31 am
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I'll be interested to see DL's response. SEA-BOI and maybe GEG would be most logical, although I'm hoping for a stray 767 to suddenly show up on SEA-ANC.
I also wouldn't be surprised if DL adds PDX-ANC in all of this. It's an old DL route that was discontinued when the PDX Asia hub was drawn down. AS pretty much owns the route and is the only nonstop option, now at 3x daily even in winter.
I'll be interested to see DL's response. SEA-BOI and maybe GEG would be most logical, although I'm hoping for a stray 767 to suddenly show up on SEA-ANC.
I also wouldn't be surprised if DL adds PDX-ANC in all of this. It's an old DL route that was discontinued when the PDX Asia hub was drawn down. AS pretty much owns the route and is the only nonstop option, now at 3x daily even in winter.
