Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
Well, I feel for my PDX brethren, since I think VX rocks... but unless there's been a change recently, SEA is VX's weakest station. I don't see that PDX is going to be a great business case for expansion as a new station, given that it has much the same competition as SEA (WN, UA, AS), except a) it gets even MORE pricing pressure from WN, so much so that b) AS is doing downgauges to QX RJs/Q400s on the PDX-Bay Area routes. It seems to me, rather, that they'd be better off going where AS and WN aren't.
But hey, could be wrong...
Fares between SFO and PDX are through the roof these days, which is why I would love to see VX come in. VX's entry would likely result in a fare war along the lines of what we are currently seeing in the SFO-SEA market. Of course, that is probably the reason we haven't seen this route launch yet.