Originally Posted by
AS Flyer
The point is that, since AS bought VX, there are more flights to more cities from SFO than ever before on either airline. The implication from others here is that AS is chopping SFO to, essentially, just another spoke - it's not true. They've added many new options. SFO-PVR/SJD is still additional, whether daily or not. SFO-AUS is twice daily all spring/summer long as well. SFO-PSP 2x daily, which is what AS offered previously so, you're right, not an add.
Obviously they have been flying these routes with airbus already. So there is enough planes for these routes. And now that these routes are dropped, the planes will be used somewhere else or have lower utilization. He is simply wondering where the aircraft is going. Perfectly reasonable question. A reasonable answer would be N-S routes or some of the other transcend that had been legacy AS. But you are bringing up that legacy VX flew fewer routes out of SFO, which is not related. Legacy VX could've had a lower utilization model or had fewer planes.