Originally Posted by
Quintious
What would a "connection" network on AS even look like? They've (stupidly, in my opinion) based all of their routing locations along the I-5 corridor. Like, if you are ANYWHERE but that I-5 corridor trying to get someplace that's also not on that corridor, the route map looks positively moronic to do so (and will look 50 times worse when AA finishes kicking AS to the curb).
You probably would have called WN moronic when they were AS’s size decades ago- they didn’t serve markets like SFO, NYC, never offered F or lounges. Not trying to do some things until they hit certain sizes, or maybe even never doing things (and committing to a model) is why airlines like WN and AS are still in business and other airlines aren’t. It’s pretty “moronic” to not play to strengths when you always have larger competition in markets, and smaller competitors typically fail trying to be all things to all people when competing with larger ones.