Originally Posted by
DELee
Not good for SAN flyers on UA - or UA flyers period. UA is clearly not competitive at LAX and the market is getting more challenging by the day. By overcommitting to SFO, they're not serving the O/D demand that's at LAX.
Originally Posted by
CApreppie
Well United has been retreating at LAX for some time unfortunately. They used to use terminals 6-8 and that UX shed near 8 (from what I recall in the 90s/00s). Now it is just terminals 7-8.
While I agree that UA has been retreating or at best treading water at LAX for some time, with all due respect I disagree that the loss of LAX-SAN specifically indicates that UA doesn't care about OD demand at LAX. LAX-SAN largely exists to serve connecting passengers. Unless your origin and destination on both ends are very close to the respective airports (e.g., El Segundo to downtown SD), it makes little sense to fly on an OD basis between the two, IMHO.
If there was a robust LAX-SAN OD market, I'd bet that we'd have seen WN, the king of the intra-California OD market, participate in it.