Originally Posted by
kevanyalowitz
You are missing the point. United is cutting routes that aren't making money is fine. However, they aren't making money on these routes because they are allowing the competition to own markets (SEA) where UA was once strong. SEA-NRT has been around longer than any other United international route - why did it go from being profitable over the long term to unprofitable?
With United consolidating their west coast presence to SFO & to a lesser extent LAX, it makes no sense at all to maintain SEA/NRT. It also doesn't help that DL is heavily building up SEA. Who cares if it was their first trasnpac route? With the JV they have with ANA, they will still get the revenue from the route without actually flying it.