PacNWFlyer

Looks like AS will be flying 2 daily round-trips between SEA and Dallas-FortWorth (DFW) starting this spring! 737-400 aircraft...

... Let the slew of comments begin! ^

AS Beefcake

Now if they would only do that from Portland! I hate having no status on AA.
Speaking of ex SEA..BOS, DCA, IAD, ORD, MCO, MIA, EWR now DFW things are getting interesting.

rjque

This is great news! I have to go to Dallas this spring and I was dreading having to fly AA! This is also going to increase the availability of LAN awards (Dallas is a LAN gateway city).

Westcoaster

Double miles? Maybe a low intro fare? Yes, I'm greedy.

RASMguy

Intro fare may come in around $298rt. Fares should be available tomorrow.

fredmartens

Amazing at how AS can keep going at AA markets (like SEA-ORD, MIA, MCO) and AA does nothing....except cut their flight schedule to coincide with the new AS routes. These two sure are "cozying up" to each other in a growing number of markets...

BarryL

Just another reason to stay away from AA. Do you think AA is a target?? On more than one occasion I have heard FA talking to passengers on AS flights about moving their status to AS.

zsmith2

Can someone say merger?

YVR Cockroach

Ya really thinks AA thinks it'll be 3rd time lucky with AS? They're already bought and largely/wholly dismantled Air Cal and Reno Air. I guess one acquisition a decade is on par.

fredmartens

Thankfully someone else said the "M" word besides moi...I've been getting a lot of flack for spouting that over the past few years...now I don't feel so crazy...

missydarlin

you're still crazy fredo.

OMAguy

merger? nah....

my novice analysis is that AS saw a huge market opening with DL dismantling its DFW hub. there will no longer be SEA-DFW nonstops operated by DL, and so AS is looking to pick up some of that market. DFW is a huge market, and i am sure AA doesn't mind at all because pax on AS flights continuing beyond DFW will be codesharing onto AA flights. now the big question is where the AS gate will be at DFW. connecting at DFW is horrendous, even when going from an AA to AA flight. i cant imagine what will happen with an AS to AA flight.

AinA

Huh, that's curious. I thought there was something screwy about DFW that you couldn't book more than two flight segments out of DFW without issuing a separate ticket. Has anyone heard of this? I can't seem to find a reference to it now, perhaps I just imagined it?

As for an introductory fare, $298 from SEA seems kind of high considering the competition's fares, a quick check at travelocity is showing web fares with Frontier, AA & UA all coming in under that price. Our experience in ANC shows us AS will fare match any UA flight. I don't know what they do when they are head to head with a LCC such as Frontier?

I wonder if AS is going to make the hop over from DFW to California at all? Or perhapsa flights btwn DFW/ORD? No matter what, it is still exciting they are branching out!

Darn it all though, I am still holding on to the pipe dream of Hawaii

Alison
Chugiak, AK

Snowdevil

You're thinking of Dallas Love Field (DAL). The Wright Amendment - designed to get air carriers to move from DAL to the new DFW airport - says that air carriers flying equipment with more than 70 seats cannot fly from DAL to any state that doesn't share a border with the state of Texas.

So if you wanted to fly from DAL to PHX on WN (as an example), they would sell it to you as two tickets - one from DAL to ABQ, and a separate one from ABQ to PHX.

OMAguy

i was writing the same thing as above at the same time. in addition to the states bordering texas, the shelby amendment allowed travel to AL and MS as well.

technically, WN cannot sell you at ticket from OMA to OKC and then OKC to DAL in the same transaction. you have to hang up and call back and book a seperate ticket.