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Old Nov 10, 2016 | 12:15 am
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Originally Posted by northwesterner
So, I wonder if DAL would be better served out of some of the California airports (LAX, SJC, SFO, etc) where AS wouldn't have to worry as much about the "beyond" code-share passenger flows at the respective AA and AS hubs.
Wouldn't there be considerably more flow from the Bay Area and QLA to DFW than from SEA to DFW?

Also, AS doesn't seem to mind serving LAX/BUR/ONT/SNA and SFO/SJC/OAK/STS from SEA/PDX, not to mention IAD/DCA/BWI and EWR/JFK. So why freak out about serving both DAL and DFW from their hubs?
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