Originally Posted by
Eastbay1K
A perhaps unexpected but beneficial consequence of what you've described is the advent of the lovely JetsuiteX service from OAK (and CCR). Not earning miles or points (save a paltry sprinkling of B6 points) on this service is worth every centavo, several times over.
DL is trying year-round OAK/ATL again, albeit at a sucky time to start. Hopefully it will stick more permanently, with some frequency, or at least same day connections to the east and to 'the world.' Right now, we're pretty much hosed for "one stop to the world" service on a non-WN major carrier (and even with major alliance partnerships).
Like others, almost all my domestic flying that's non-transcontinental goes through WN and OAK. I'd happily shift some more flights to DL if they did more than OAK-SLC. I'm hoping the DL OAK-ATL will stick around (though even when it goes to year-round, I think it's only 5 or 6 times per week, so not quite daily. I'm still miffed that they cut out OAK-LAX because that was an easy one-stop flight to a lot of destinations, and it didn't have too many delays. Several times this year I've been stuck in LAX-SFO delay hell on DL due to landing constraints at SFO, and with DL's shift to T2/3 at LAX, it isn't a particularly pleasant wait.
That being said, there's so much demand right now, that I don't see the end of SFO anytime soon. I do wish more of the big players would shift a little more of their operations to OAK though, but I understand why most of the traffic has been going to SJC.