Originally Posted by
SanDiego1K
And what about SAN? I've always understood it to be a hub, and am very grateful for the weath of flights we have from it.
"Atlanta will be the 37th nonstop destination Alaska Airlines offers from San Diego, the most of any airline flying out of San Diego International Airport. Alaska flies to the four major islands of Hawaii, as well as cities in the U.S. Northwest, Northeast, California, Mexico and Florida."
Alaska's MO is
Owning the PNW market since it's not big enough for others to bother
Offering higher dollar direct flights to niche pairings from the west coast
Long haul flights to vacation stops (mostly Hawaii) from the west coast cities
Basically anywhere where they're not just competing on volume. Is SD a hub? Depends on the definition I guess but you make a good case for it being called that. It's good it will have some nice planes now that it will own a few Dreamliners to go along with the max death boxes it signed up for.