What Routes Do You Want Alaska Airlines to Fly? (2019)
Apr 11, 2019 | 9:27 pm
#1
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What Routes Do You Want Alaska Airlines to Fly? (2019)
The title is says it all.
Possibly realistic
Seattle - Long Beach
Seattle - Islip
Portland - Denver
Aspirational
Seattle - Kangerlussuaq, Greenland - Munich. Kangerlussuaq could be a 40 minute refueling stop 4 days a week and a 60 minute stop with ticketed traffic 3 days a week.
Anchorage - Sapporo, Japan
Seattle - Fargo - LaGuardia
Possibly realistic
Seattle - Long Beach
Seattle - Islip
Portland - Denver
Aspirational
Seattle - Kangerlussuaq, Greenland - Munich. Kangerlussuaq could be a 40 minute refueling stop 4 days a week and a 60 minute stop with ticketed traffic 3 days a week.
Anchorage - Sapporo, Japan
Seattle - Fargo - LaGuardia
Apr 11, 2019 | 9:47 pm
#6
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: SFO
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Posts: 337
Could we see some eastern Canada destinations? Id take YYZ, but would love YOW/YUL. I really feel AS needs to get a focus city further east to feed on both sides of the country. The had a shot with JFK and could use a few E75 there to feed from smaller destinations.
Apr 11, 2019 | 10:59 pm
#11
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: SFO
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Apr 11, 2019 | 11:18 pm
#13
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: NYC
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It's a UA and WN hub which makes it impossible, bar ANC and SEA to actually keep their competitiveness. But if your focus cities are SAN/SFO/PDX/LAX you are going to have to at some point push for a route here and there. They cut the SFO route last year because of WN/F9/UA, but at some point you have to say okay we need to strive for one of those routes to work if we want these new focus cities to be that and CA people to take our airline.
Apr 11, 2019 | 11:28 pm
#14
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Reno Air once had flights from Mississippi and the Florida panhandle that were not connected with the route network around Reno. As far as the madness of FT, nobody has yet suggested an Alaska focus city in Budapest to fill the gap left by the demise of Malev or acquisition of Wow Air and starting a hub at Keflavik, rebranded as Wow Alaska! That would be madness.
Apr 12, 2019 | 1:52 am
#15
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: US West Coast
Programs: Alaska 100K, Hyatt Gl, Marriott Ti/LTP
Posts: 362
I second MEX and SJU. SFO is more useful to me than LAX, but Id take LAX if that was the deal. Also would love SEA-YYZ.
If were allowed to wish for truly insanely unlikely routes, my vote would be for flying around the Pacific out of HNL. PPT, GUM (via MAJ?) and HNL-PPG-AKL, here I come! 🤪
If were allowed to wish for truly insanely unlikely routes, my vote would be for flying around the Pacific out of HNL. PPT, GUM (via MAJ?) and HNL-PPG-AKL, here I come! 🤪