985X

Or a max9 from Anchorage to Narita

flytoeat

One World > AA.

dayone

And AS joining oneworld wasn't predicated on three AA international routes from SEA.

StevenSeagalFan

Then why didn’t they join OW years ago? AA was the catalyst and dealmaker and made AS offers they couldn’t back up in exchange for buddying up and joining OW.

eponymous_coward

In all fairness, AA [ran into] COVID, which basically made early 2020 the absolute worst possible time to start international service. Also the West Coast has been the absolute last place to recover air traffic from COVID, so that’s basically a perfect storm of bad luck for AA here.

That being said, I think the entire plan was wacky even if you take away COVID. It depended on AA being able to get a lot of pax for SEA-BLR because UA couldn’t run their 789s far enough for SFO-BLR. Well guess what, they figured that out. AA has marginal mindshare in SEA outside of folks going to AA hubs, both SEA and LHR are highly seasonal markets for tourism, and it should have been a “um, DUH” that DL and VS were going to dump capacity in the market to keep AA out.

Tack

I’ll bite. You know that AA made these promises how? While AA was the sponsor for AS to join OW, I never heard any factual or rumored enticements made by AA to secure AS membership. There were many reason AS felt now was the time to join an alliance, AA and it’s SEA growth was never promised.

EDIT: I know one of the benefits of OW membership AS was very excited about was the ability to partner with airlines outside of the alliance. The JX codeshare is a nice add.

davidlin15

By reading the news are the good rates 60k J only TPE to LAX? Since AS not allowed two partner
I would really want to try out this new J but given the fact CX 50K to HKG, and you can add 1 seg for free(my case to mainland China).
Would hope the HKG - LAX is 60K

VibeGuy

SEA-BLR had outsized O&D traffic in the Before Times. Wildly so, and with a good mix of premium cabin and economy. With the dramatic headcount reduction of H1B-centric outsourcers and changes in their big clients’ travel patterns that just evaporated.

StevenSeagalFan

The business community in Seattle responded with , great, BLR doesn’t do us any good, we’d rather have BOM, DEL or HYD. BLR was never going to work.

zrs70

I’m a little (a lot) peeved.

I was on the STARLUX inaugural TPE-LAX. Upon landing, I saw the announcement that as STARLUX flight could earn mileage on AS. I contacted STARLUX, and they responded that since the announcement was made 6 hours after my flight departed, they would not allow me to earn Alaska miles.

Seems pretty petty to me.

notquiteaff

Perhaps just submit your boarding pass to AS for retro credit instead of contacting Starlux?

zrs70

That’s what I had hoped to do. But my STARLUX number was in the account, and the credit was already given a Starlux. STARLUX said that they will not do anything about it.

salut0

Given that partners buy miles for a tiny amount per mile, and it’s not likely that many people on that flight would be crediting to AS, the total cost for STARLUX of buying the miles might be as little as a few thousand dollars or even only a few hundred dollars:

TPE-LAX 6799 miles
per mile cost maybe 1.4c?
Less than $100 per leg for base miles if earning in economy, ranging to about $330 if earning 350% in first class.

I suspect that airlines also account for their own miles they award for their own flights to the members of the partner program crediting them to there, so there’s some reciprocal balancing and little actual money probably changes hands.

She

Any idea when can I book say, PDX - TPE (via LAX)?
On the Starlux website it only allows bookings to/from LAX. I thought partnership would mean connecting flight availability on Alaska, no?

notquiteaff

from the Starlux press release:

”The agreement will give both STARLUX and Alaska loyalty program members more opportunities for rewards by earning points on flights operated by each carrier. Once fully implemented, the partnership will allow customers of both airlines to book connecting flights on a single ticket, making check-in and luggage transfer faster and easier.”

my guess is they don’t know yet when it will be fully implemented.