Yayh for Alaska!

https://downloads.regulations.gov/DO...tachment_1.pdf

AAG is happy about SAN, but not about Delta getting SEA-DCA.

Or an additional SFO-DCA frequency in UA's pocket. But that was how it was going to go anyway.

Not directly competing with AS, but DCA-LAS-SMF on WN should be very popular as well.

Maybe with the additional DCA-SEA on DL, AS will lower prices on that route so there's less of a price difference compared to flying out of IAD or BWI.

That PDX-DCA flight seems like it's always an -800 which virtually guarantees I'll be sitting in the back...not a fan...lol.

patience, grasshopper

AS *is* planning to retrofit the -800s to 16F

True...although the completion date isn't until 2026 so it's quite a wait...

SEA-DCA used to be one of my milk runs. I would not be surprised to see SAN-DCA become the same thing for everybody south of SNA. With the large military population from Camp Pendleton and south, it seems to me this will have heavy DoD loads. So like the SEA-DCA flights, don't expect much in the way of available upgrades. My previous SEA-DCA flights would have as many as ~90-100 names. Even as a 75K I would be between 20-30 on the list. I even sat next to a member of Congress, who was in a middle seat, because they didn't upgrade. Evidently that flight had multiple members of Congress in the cheap seats. So unless you're a 100K booking Y, B, or H fare class tickets (I think K won't be enough), don't get your hope up. But it is a great addition to the AS system.

Yeah San Diego has the largest concentration of DoD personnel (active, civilian, and contractor) than anywhere else on the planet, never mind all the other federal agencies out here. This has been needed for a very long time. It was also not really feasible to do it on AS previously as there is no SAN-LAX regional, and the SEA/PDX/SFO choices all left before you could get up there from SAN.

SFO used to be doable back on the A321, it left later in the day, so you took the first flight up in the morning to catch it, and get the last flight home on the way back. Used to see that thing chock full of politicians, even sat across the aisle from Nancy Pelosi on one flight. But if there was even a whiff of IRROPS the whole thing went pear shaped.

So I have been slumming it on AA through DFW... this will be a nice change of pace.

Guessing this time it'll stick? (there was a pematue flight load last time AS tried for SAN-DCA).

I flew SAN-DCA when it was a US Airways route and my upgrade success was middling. That was, what, 10 years ago?

My favorite trick for SAN flights out of DCA was when AS flirted with its little operation at DAL. Very, very convenient that was.

I assume this will mean the end of SAN-IAD.

Wonder if any of the AS 738/7M8 capacity out of DCA will upgrade to HA's A321s at some point in the future, give its larger capacity to fly those routes fully loaded.

Well, AS announced yesterday that they're switching upgrade priority within elite status levels from fare-based to EQMs earned-based.

Sigh.... yes, yes it was.

why would it? DCA and IAD aren�t exactly the same market demographics

entirely possible, given that the ex-VX jets plied the SEA and SFO routes for a few years