Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
If anything, the drawdown at LAX (which is pretty obvious now, I would expect SJC to be the next victim) is QX changing to providing AS CPA, rather than trying to make routes work on O/D (which is how RDD/ACV-LAX and RNO-LAX were going to live and die). The question then becomes where QX flies to to add feed to PDX/SEA... or, if someone else will buy QX capacity (which I think is a strong possibility- the Q400 becomes very attractive in a $100/bbl oil environment).
The problem with your argument is that the LAX and SJC routes were operated under the CPA. The 'at-risk' QX routes were the legacy PNW stuff.