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Dieuwer Jan 28, 2015 1:21 pm
Weak at SEA, strong at BOS
 
Browsing the wiki page of SEA, I noticed how weak (comparatively speaking) OneWorld is at SEA. The only international airline from OW at SEA is BA. In contrast, my hometown BOS has three international carriers: BA, CX, and JAL.

drewp123 Jan 28, 2015 2:58 pm
Weak at SEA, strong at BOS
 
AS flights can be credited to AA at least. Not sure about other OW partners...

Gardyloo Jan 28, 2015 5:25 pm
Originally Posted by dieuwer2 (Post 24251524)
Browsing the wiki page of SEA, I noticed how weak (comparatively speaking) OneWorld is at SEA. The only international airline from OW at SEA is BA. In contrast, my hometown BOS has three international carriers: BA, CX, and JAL.
True, but it's pretty easy to get to YVR, where you have CX, JL and BA. I'm still hoping Hainan might be tempted to join OW one of these days; they already codeshare with AB, AA and S7.

Delta is hubbing Seattle and really muscling in on Alaska's business up and down the west coast, including service to Alaska. DL and AS still partner, but I wouldn't be surprised if that sheet isn't split soon. AS partners with a lot of OW airlines as well as Skyteam, but if the Delta split occurs I wouldn't be shocked to see OW make another run as signing up AS.

Dieuwer Jan 28, 2015 5:27 pm
Originally Posted by Gardyloo (Post 24252965)
True, but it's pretty easy to get to YVR, where you have CX, JL and BA. I'm still hoping Hainan might be tempted to join OW one of these days; they already codeshare with AB, AA and S7.

Delta is hubbing Seattle and really muscling in on Alaska's business up and down the west coast, including service to Alaska. DL and AS still partner, but I wouldn't be surprised if that sheet isn't split soon. AS partners with a lot of OW airlines as well as Skyteam, but if the Delta split occurs I wouldn't be shocked to see OW make another run as signing up AS.
Why are CX and JL not considering SEA? Must be an appealing market with Boeing, Microsoft, etc present.

Gardyloo Jan 28, 2015 6:07 pm
Originally Posted by dieuwer2 (Post 24252978)
Why are CX and JL not considering SEA? Must be an appealing market with Boeing, Microsoft, etc present.
For CX, too many Hong Kong Chinese folks in YVR. Not sure on JL's loads to YVR; last time I rode it the plane was far from full. I think most TYO traffic is still more focused on California than the northwest, and of course many many more OW connections through LAX than anywhere else in the west. I wouldn't be shocked, however, to see CX run an A350 to SEA at some point, or JL a 787. Hainan has switched to a 787 which seems to be the right size, as has ANA from NRT (taking over from United which dropped its NRT nonstop last year.)

For other Asian destinations - PEK, PVG, HKG, NRT, ICN, TPE... there's plenty of nonstop capacity to/from SEA on several carriers.


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