Originally Posted by
Duke787
I’m confused about the “DL has no SFO representation” comment. DL and AA have roughly the same market share at SFO, DL is bigger at SJC (and just made it a focus city), and both are basically non-existent at OAK
Sorry, it would have been more helpful to include my home base of PHX, so I edited the post to clarify. PHX has no DL nonstop to the three Bay cities, requiring a layover in LAX, SLC, or SEA, whereas AA goes nonstop from PHX to all three airports.
I did status match DL to AA while I decide what to do. If there was a PHX-SJC direct it'd be a no-brainer for me to switch to DL completely, but I can't turn an hour and a half flight into six hours of travel, so it's either commit fully to AA (Platinum) or split to AA Gold and DL Silver it seems.