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Old Apr 4, 2016, 12:44 am
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
You mean like how DL has large operations set up at SEA and LAX?
And if DL set up a hub operation at SFO, it would cannibalize from the traffic that flows into SEA and LAX. Even a combined AS/VX at LAX would still have less market share there than AA/DL/UA each have.

Or like how WN has large operations set up at LAS, OAK, LAX, PHX, SJC, SNA and SAN? I hear they're doing just TERRIBLE these days...
Isn't WN a much larger airline than AS/VX will ever be? Particularly in California.
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