What Routes Do You Want Alaska Airlines to Fly? (2019)
Jul 6, 2019, 5:55 pm
#226
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It would be more about connecting the LAX and SFO hubs, as well as the SAN focus city, with PHX. To be relevant in those markets, PHX is a must-have for the long term. Making all the PHX-area elites happy would just be a plus.
Jul 6, 2019, 6:56 pm
#227
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Agreed. I've mostly been living near LAX/SFO/SEA these past few years, and it's heartbreaking to see how limited AS service is out of PHX. I think AS has a huge opportunity in PHX as a potential future hub, as lots of folks who live down here in the desert (retirees, etc) came here from cloudy Seattle. I imagine that traffic from SFO and LAX to PHX would be substantial, too.
AS runs SFO-PHX during spring training. On my last flight, there was 7 open F seats and a smattering in Main. I doubt it would be viable! AS codeshares with AA on PHX-SJC & PHX-SAN. Competing on LAX-PHX would be a bloodbath.
James
Jul 6, 2019, 7:35 pm
#228
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It’s already a double hub, and it wouldn’t add much of anything to AS’s network in terms of connectivity. So while I agree that significantly more O&D oriented AS service from PHX to the west coast and maybe even ANC would be great and plausible, PHX as an AS hub in the sense of building the flow for connections seems very, very unlikely. STL seems more plausible, and that’s highly unlikely.
James
Jul 6, 2019, 8:10 pm
#229
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Jul 9, 2019, 12:10 pm
#233
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Jul 9, 2019, 1:00 pm
#235
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I wish that AS would fly one of these routes as well but they would get crushed.
Jul 9, 2019, 5:20 pm
#237
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JetSuiteX will also have 3 from OAK starting in October so the route is getting even more crowded from the Bay Area.
Jul 11, 2019, 3:44 pm
#240
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Now if AA decided to ramp down PHX severely, I could see AS trying something in PHX like they did in SJC/SAN (though NK/F9/G4 would jump too, probably DL as well). But I don't see AA dehubbing PHX anytime soon.