SFO-PDX Changes
Feb 25, 2013, 8:17 pm
#1
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SFO-PDX Changes
What gives. Used to be able to fly out at 8:30AM and back home at 7PM on 737s and A320s over the past 2 months. Now if i want to do a day trip for work it is showing an CRJ-200 on the way up in the morning. No thanks, I'll just stay home. Or look at a later date...
Feb 25, 2013, 8:54 pm
#2
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I dunno. As I noted in the CLE-PDX thread, SFO-PDX flights are at a nearly 10 year high in terms of frequency (x9 daily in the summer), but I think the timings of the flights (and capacity) are to best match up with SFO hub banks, not to optimize SFO->PDX day trips.
Feb 25, 2013, 10:02 pm
#3
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Frequencies are super-high. Prices are super-low. SFO-PDX used to be an absolute ripoff ($350+) back in 2010ish when I used to fly it semi-regularly. Now I don't need to fly it, it's cheap-cheap ($170). Damn you, UA! The entry of Virgin seems to be the important factor.
Feb 25, 2013, 10:29 pm
#4
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Feb 25, 2013, 11:09 pm
#5
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Ditto for Seattle. The only outbound flight that now works for me is on a CRJ-200 ... glad it is under 2hrs.
Feb 25, 2013, 11:10 pm
#6
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SFO-AUS frequency is up as is SFO-EWR. VX is the common element.
I also think part of it is that with some of the excess capacity freed up by overlapping UA/CO routes, the extra planes backfilled some of the losses on routes like SFO-PDX that used to have high frequency before the 737s were retired in 2009.
Feb 25, 2013, 11:51 pm
#7
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I've booked $158 but also $349 and $588 so not cheap-cheap every day.