Originally Posted by
milypan
Please stop lumping LAX/SFO in with SEA. I understand you didn't start it—we're just haphazardly throwing around the term "West Coast"—but as the investor slides show, AS has ~4x as many flights out of SEA as it does out of LAX or SFO. These are qualitatively different networks. And that's before even considering that the competition will be much stronger ex-LAX/SFO simply due to the much larger markets in those two MSAs.
Why can't I lump them in with PDX, SJC and SAN, then? Nobody is seriously arguing that AS's expansion in CA is close to over. But WN didn't show up in PHX/LAS in the early 80's with 50 flights a day, either. Why aren't accretive adds to the current network ex-California going to work like they did for WN and B6 as they gathered momentum?