Originally Posted by
milypan
That's reasonable. I'm just saying don't conflate the network they have ex-SFO or ex-LAX with what they have ex-SEA. What they have ex-SEA is competitive, on the basis of the network alone. What they have ex-SFO/LAX is not.
Right, but do you reasonably expect an airline with 30-40% of the fleet size of the majors (not to mention a smaller amount of regional) to have 100% of the network of the majors? Or can we see where they are in a few years?
(They're WAY better at serving more of CA's markets than VX ever was, thanks to strong PNW presence that creates some natural market share + a presence in SJC and SAN that VX never had.)
WN doesn't serve JFK. They don't serve MYR, BTV or VPS (from that earlier poster's point).
They didn't need to serve any of those places to be a successful business. So is the argument that AS is doooooomed, terribly doooooomed because they don't serve a lot of markets that majors do, and their position is as a scrappy
#2 in a lot of CA markets instead of a
#1 ? Or what?