Originally Posted by eponymous_coward

DL chased AA out of SEA, quite wisely IMO. DL and VS are now each flying daily (VS started service during this time) and BA added PDX-LHR during the AA attempt at SEA-LHR. That's 5 flights with the BA double daily, and PDX-LHR bleeding off some PDX connecting traffic. Way too many seats in the PNW-LON market for AA as the new entrant to do much of anything other than get all the bottom feeder discount traffic.

I flew AA 155/156 in the offseason and it was a J award+nonrev delight, or get your own row in Y. No surprises here once DL decided they were not about to have AA muscle in and made sure there was way too much capacity.