Originally Posted by
dkc192
IMO, aircraft utilization probably had a fairly minor role in the decision to move the LAX-SIN flight to a second daily SFO-SIN. It's mainly about economics: UA simply has more pricing power at its fortress TPAC hub than it does at the hyper-competitive free-for-all that is LAX. The aircraft utilization benefit was probably the cherry on top.
LAX-SIN J cabin was filled with 1Ks on GPUs. Great for upgrades, bad for revenue.
Originally Posted by
ContinentalFan
Singapore had two daily flights from LAX for a while. What are the chances that the decision to by UA to abandon LAX was at least partially driven by better aircraft utilization with twice daily flights from SFO?
SQ was flying twice daily nonstops from LAX and SFO (though I don't think SFO was 7 days a week). They were also operating a connecting route to SIN from each.