Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
AS should definitely want to poach customers in CA no matter how much
the FT crowd does about WN whenever they're mentioned.
Yeah. And I don't get the
from FTers. People complain about AS cutting (or not expanding) the network where they want it expanded. But you know what leads to network expansions? More customers wanting to fly AS (and being willing to pay to fly AS)! Seats on AS (just like the broader economy) are not, long-term, a zero-sum game in which more WN customers means fewer seats or fewer upgrades for existing AS elites.