Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
If they want to buy AS, expanding in SEA is 100% the wrong way to do it- the DOJ is already starting to throw stiff-arms about competition...
Ha! Why would DOJ start now? Where were those corporatist clowns two or three mergers ago? I think it would be silly to expect the feds to forestall any further damage. AS has to fend for itself in that one.
Originally Posted by
Dawgfan6291
SLC services traffic flows that LAX can not (same for SEA).
LAX or SEA will never sub for SLC as an east-west connector and pressure-valve option for transcon traffic. The coastal corners are for international, Utah is for domestic. And SLC is preferred by many over MSP and ATL for quick gate-to-gate walk times and great bad-wx ops, two great advantages. (Ran breathless through MSP for 10+ minutes to make a quick connection last week -- walked three minutes through SLC on the way back.)