Originally Posted by
BW Flyer
I welcome the competition. B4 draws a different crowd like leisure travelers so it won't have much impact on business travelers flying SEA to ANC. But I hope this competition will help drive down AS' summer fare SEA to ANC, negating the effects on standard fares from the X fares. Any competition in SEA will ground AS to reality and take out their arrogance (along with high ticket price) that thinking they own the PNW.
While I sort of get where you're coming from, there's actually a LOT of seasonal competition between the PNW and ANC.
Delta increases their fflights.
JetBlew shows up.
American shows up.
Sun Country picks a random new city every year to fly to ANC from.
Air Canada.
Frontier used to come in.
Virgin American tried it once.
And prices get pretty good during those months. I've seen $79 pretty frequently ANC-SEA, and roughly the same for ANC-PDX.