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Old Mar 5, 2025 | 5:15 pm
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Originally Posted by blue bear
ATo me it has always been a pure O/D market: I would bet a large amount of money noting that many who live north of the Ship Canal bridge would take PAE to markets as such a LAX, BUR, SFO, DEN and even ABQ and not have to deal with SEA. It would not even need to be mainline - a route that is too much for a daily mainline to SEA could benefit from a reliever to PAE with a 175.
So here's the initial AS service announcement for PAE:

https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-ai...ervice-begins/

What's stayed around since then has been tourism markets (SNA/PHX/LAS for sure, arguably SAN, SFO and LAX). All but SFO fit the model "take people somewhere sunny on vacation". (So is PAE-HNL, which apparently is going seasonal.)

All I can say is AS tried multiple shuttle markets that are classic "reliever from SEA": PAE-PDX, PAE-BOI, PAE-GEG, PAE-SJC and PAE-ANC (all of them get a ton of service from SEA), and they left the market for ALL of them.

So that history plus UA flopping on PAE-DEN (and let's face it, AS isn't connecting ANYONE beyond DEN, UA can connect a lot of folks) makes me very skeptical that PAE is much beyond a leisure market play for AS.
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