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Old Apr 28, 2010 | 12:01 pm
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
The problem I see is that those destinations may have the same problems as CUN has, that got it eliminated by AS- high cost for the outstation compared to the ability to piggyback on current operations at HNL/KOA/OGG, mostly low RASM leisure flying that eats up a plane for an entire day doing a roundtrip because of stage length (in fact, LAX-SJO is LONGER than SEA-CUN, and keep in mind that LAX is a weaker O/D market for AS than SEA, as witnessed by the fact that LAX-CUN got yanked before SEA-CUN did).

If AS can't make CUN work in their network, it's hard for me to see how they make BZE or SJO work.
Yeah, but LACSA is the only airline that flies non-stop between LAX-SJO, so competition is not fierce on this route... O/D should be good out of LAX and AS will get many OW and ST members as well as the "regular folks"....
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