Originally Posted by logicalrealist

As someone based in SEA, I prefer this to the mix of the A319s and E175s they had on the route before. Yeah, I miss the hot meal on the A319, but my upgrade clears more reliably on the E175 (or, when purchasing paid business, there's actually inventory available on the 175...), the meals are reasonably substantial (more so than what AS last served me on that route), and I've found the Compass crews to be great.

The biggest downsides have been a) they seem to schedule it tighter than the current airport situations at LAX and SEA allow, so there are often delays and b) the remote terminal at LAX (and, increasingly, the bus gates at SEA).