Originally Posted by Snowdevil
AS seems to handle Mexico and Canada just fine...(and) Alaska took on places other U.S. majors never DREAMED of serving...
Point taken.
But launching long-haul trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic operations, especially into countries/cities/airports already well-served by other domestic airlines, is probably not in AS' best interests at the moment (and I know nobody is currently advocating such service - I am just generalizing here).