Originally Posted by
formeraa
The thing to remember is this is a tiny blip for AA (very, very small percentage of total travelers). It is a much bigger deal for AS, as many of AS travelers depended on the AA and DL agreements when traveling outside of AS's markets. Actually, for AS in SEA, it may mean some large defections to DL (who now is able to single-handedly satisfy most SEA travel needs).
It may be a rounding error for AA because the biggest effects on AA might be in two stations, SEA and PDX.
I've thought about it more and I don't intend to defect to DL. Instead, I plan to use very little AA and then divide up travel between AS and DL and the others.
For the SEA hub, AS is stronger than DL with some notable exceptions. To smaller places, like DAY or GSP as well as SEA-JFK, where AS has a terrible schedule of one red eye eastbound.