Originally Posted by
noah
Just spent over $800 to fly RT PDX-BOS in December; granted there is holiday traffic and loads are high but at those prices I'm even avoiding peak days (which would have pushed the fare above $1000). Alaska is clearly making money with these PNW Transcons to BOS.
AS only needs to fill a 1/4 to 1/5 of the seats at that price, more or less, to break what they're taking from $198 RTs.