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Jul 5, 2022 | 5:57 pm

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Originally Posted by dkc192

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.

I actually hated getting bumped into that SAN LAX flight when I was trying to get back to SFO or ORD directly. Seemed like I was always getting stuck going to LAX to get the next flight out to SFO/ORD. Driving is an alternative for those who want the SAN-LAX but I hate the 405 and the 5.

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