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Old Jul 21, 2016, 11:05 am
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Expanded Service to EWR
Today, on the second quarter conference call, Andrew Harrison announced that AS has received approval for four additional flights to / from EWR daily. The new flight allotments will be used as follows:

PDX-EWR starting in November, 2016
SAN-EWR starting in November, 2016
SJC-EWR starting in March, 2017
SEA-EWR (increase frequency from twice daily to three times daily) starting in May, 2017.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 12:10 pm
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It's great to see AS getting serious about NYC; this will more than double their overall number of flights per day.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 1:17 pm
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I wish this went along with picking stocks or lottery numbers.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 1:37 pm
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It does look like they plan on being serious NYC players. LAX and SFO VX transcons, and now these additions.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 1:39 pm
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FINALLY PDX-EWR!! Have been waiting 10+ years for this.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by jjka
FINALLY PDX-EWR!! Have been waiting 10+ years for this.
And for SEA, more U space opportunities maybe, plus an extra 500 miles.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 2:29 pm
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Originally Posted by ASeverywhere
SAN-EWR starting in November, 2016
Yes, YES, YES!!

Originally Posted by lg20
And for SEA, more U space opportunities maybe, plus an extra 500 miles.
I'll be looking to go via PDX here in San Diego too
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 2:57 pm
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Originally Posted by ASeverywhere
Today, on the second quarter conference call, Andrew Harrison announced that AS has received approval for four additional flights to / from EWR daily. The new flight allotments will be used as follows:

PDX-EWR starting in November, 2016
SAN-EWR starting in November, 2016
SJC-EWR starting in March, 2017
SEA-EWR (increase frequency from twice daily to three times daily) starting in May, 2017.
Are we using newly acquired airframes or is this where we see smaller planes showing up on other routes to keep the same number of reps into west coast airports?
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 4:04 pm
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Originally Posted by JPat
Are we using newly acquired airframes or is this where we see smaller planes showing up on other routes to keep the same number of reps into west coast airports?
I could see AS axing SAN-MCO and SAN-BOS(especially this one) to help with this growth. Both of these are usually wide open.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 4:09 pm
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The Alaska Route Map has been updated
The Alaska Route Map has been updated
Under the new routes section you can see:

PDX-EWR starts November 10, 2016, 1x daily
SAN-EWR starts November 21, 2016, 1x daily
SJC-EWR starts March 12, 2017, 1x daily

https://www.alaskaair.com/content/ro...plore-routeMap

This will make 58-nonstop destinations from PDX that AS serves. Wow.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by jjka
I could see AS axing SAN-MCO and SAN-BOS(especially this one) to help with this growth. Both of these are usually wide open.
I doubt SAN-BOS is going away any time soon.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 4:37 pm
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Originally Posted by JPat
Are we using newly acquired airframes or is this where we see smaller planes showing up on other routes to keep the same number of reps into west coast airports?
AS has flexibility on when they retire 734s and 73Gs (or converting the 73Gs to cargo) if they need it, plus new deliveries.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 4:41 pm
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Press Release:

http://splash.alaskasworld.com/Newsr...721_145646.asp
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 6:10 pm
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Originally Posted by jjka
I could see AS axing SAN-MCO and SAN-BOS(especially this one) to help with this growth. Both of these are usually wide open.
not true. not true at all. I've flown SAN-MCO and SAN-BOS a number of times over the last few years and there have been few, if any, seats available. Alaska isn't keen on keeping money losing routes around and both of these have been around for a while.
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Old Jul 21, 2016, 8:17 pm
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Originally Posted by AS Flyer
not true. not true at all. I've flown SAN-MCO and SAN-BOS a number of times over the last few years and there have been few, if any, seats available. Alaska isn't keen on keeping money losing routes around and both of these have been around for a while.
+1 I am on SAN-BOS-SAN at least 6 times a year and have never seen more than a handful of open seats.

Also, big ^ to the SAN-EWR-SAN schedule!
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