Originally Posted by
milypan
TFTFY. From other West Coast locations, including SFO and LAX, AS doesn't have lots of non-stop transcons to major cities, unless your definition of major city is one with a population over 3 million.
Fun Fact: the top airline for seat share in AS’s markets pre-VX merger was the one with the least amount of trans cons, the airline of the kettles, the airline FTers who love Krug and caviar showers despise: WN. Read the presentation.
AS is very clearly gunning for them, and NOT the premium transcon market (they do want some natural market share transcon, but it’s never been a huge focus out of SEA, and they have decided to skip a B6 Chainsaw Massacre in those CA premium markets). Maybe they are idiots. But it’s pretty clear reading the tea leaves they want WN share too, and they are fighting more against WN than trying to run premium transcon.