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Old Mar 6, 2014 | 9:43 am
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Originally Posted by guysierra
Just want to express my concern on the discontinuance of the mid and late afternoon flights from Fresno to Seattle. Each flight has been full, so not sure the reasoning behind Alaska removing their afternoon flights from the schedule.
If I were to sell FAT-SEA flights for a dollar each way, I would certainly fill up my flights, but I would lose money.

Full flights do not mean profitable ones.

My guess is that there's only so much SkyWest capacity to go around, and AS thinks there's more profitable places to put it...
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