Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
AS generally has pushed people to the nonstop over the onestop if they have a nonstop in the applicable market. It almost always is less expensive to go SEA-XXX over SEA-PDX-XXX, for instance.
Case in point:
SEA-LAS March 5-11: $69
SEA-PDX-LAS March 5-11: $142
It looks like AS doesn't just hate BLI, they hate SEA too.
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No, they love SEA. We can argue this in person if you want in a couple of weeks, but I see $93 SEA-PDX-LAS flights (2181/624 on the 7th for example), so saying it's $142 is misleading.
Also, let's compare one stop W.Wa -> LAS for the same time period
EAT-SEA-LAS $89
PUW-SEA-LAS $101
GEG-SEA-LAS $104
YKM-SEA-LAS $116
PSC-SEA-LAS $116
BLI-SEA-LAS $159
even YYJ-SEA-LAS is only a couple of bucks more, and it includes $40ish in US taxes on the international segment.
Also, what non-stop? There's no non-stop to Vegas right now from BLI (it's only for 6 months of the year, at which point BLI-SEA-LAS becomes)
To sum up. If you want to fly BLI-SEA-LAS (which you're forced to do 5 months of the year, or perhaps you want to for scheduling reasons)
BLI-SEA-<SW USA> ---- LAS is (by far) the most expensive destination
<W.WA>-SEA-LAS ---- BLI is (by far) the most expensive originating point