Originally Posted by sfozrhfco

As has happened many, many times with airline mergers/acquisitions, it is more likely that more cuts will be coming to the acquired carrier's home base. California flights and adds would be concentrated to better serve people in Alaska and the PNW where AS are stronger. The short lived days of being relevant to California customers going beyond the West Coast and Hawaii seem pretty dead at this point. Their stock price is still 40% below the time of the acquisition with a looming downturn in the economy, so they are highly unlikely to continue to fly loss making routes out of California which have dragged down their overall profitability. Management has already stated they will focus on the PNW and it seems obvious now that serving customers originating there are a much higher priority than California based customers.