Originally Posted by
PV_Premier
If you are going to Mexico, Southern California, or Hawaii, one could easily argue that SJC is a preferred place to connect
Possibly, but the problem is do you time your SJC flights for SJC O/D or for a small outstation? So, do you time EUG-SJC for best O/D, or connections? That Q400 is going somewhere afterwards, so there's that to consider, too.
I don't get the impression that AS particularly times
anyplace for connections outside of PDX/SEA and the LAX scissors hub for Mexico (and maybe some of the scissors one stop flights to Mexico AS does in California). They're primarily an O/D airline except for stuff going up and down the coast, and some Alaska/PNW->SEA/PDX action. Mind you this is just my impression as an Official FlyerTalk EVP of Network Planning™ (aren't we all?).
And I would think a lot easier to time service to a larger hub (SEA or PDX) than a small focus city (SJC), simply because you have more options for gates and flight timings to connect to (and O/D flow to make it not just a connection flight).
Originally Posted by
PDXpress
It does seem that the VX acquisition put the breaks on Alaska's SJC expansion. It could have made a nice little hub.
They've added EWR and JFK recently. My guess is there are more possible passengers in New York City than Eugene.