Originally Posted by
sfozrhfco
There is no point in going through contortions getting onto a flight out of PAE when the chances of it operating are highly unlikely. If you want to travel for fun from the new airport, you are going to have at least one month notice from the time the government opens to the time it will even remotely be possible for PAE to open.
Inaugurals, particularly from a new airport, sell out. If you don't book when it's first available you may not be going at all.
Originally Posted by
missamo80
We had seats on the original inaugural flight. Alaska announced a new (subject to government approval) inaugural flight. We should be on it. I'm not currently, neither are others who used to be, and there is no clear statement from Alaska as to why that's the case
I suspect this is the reason. With the PDX flight becoming the inaugural instead of LAS, I bet there were people moving over or others getting on leaving late callers without a seat. If the flights are completely empty and blocked now, AS may be trying to figure out how to handle it rather than just leave it up to first come first served.