Originally Posted by eponymous_coward

Currently AA’s strategy is service to non-partner hubs out of CLT/PHL/DFW, and mostly partner hubs or abject surrender elsewhere. There’s a certain logic to doing it out of markets they dominate, but if you get serious flop sweat about LAX, CHI or NYC I don’t see how SEA is going to work, where you have the same basic problem (actual competition like in those markets) except the market is even smaller.



It isn’t. SFO is considerably larger than SEA and “we still have the same monarch as former British colonies” is a thing.

Again, if AA can’t make LHR work (top TATL destination for SEA, #2 international for SEA behind YVR) I’m very skeptical they can make ANY longhaul destination out of SEA work. They have no juice in SEA or history of making anything that isn’t out of a fortress hub (for all intents and purposes LHR is a fortress hub) long term.