Originally Posted by
lensovet
My point is that the Bay Area has done a catastrophically poor job of recovering from the pandemic downturn in passenger traffic. Airlines that attempted to juice demand, including United who has a much bigger network and fleet availability than AS does, could not justify this for more than a few months!
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And your point is outdated. Traffic has recovered at SFO and yet AS keeps axing flights. They dismantled their focus city at SJC as well. They continue to make themselves less and less relevant to Bay Area travelers.