Austin, TX ?
Feb 12, 2013, 7:05 am
#2
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Stockholm, Sweden + Austin, Tx
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http://www.statesman.com/news/travel...rgstrom/nWMTk/
Looks like my monthly trip to SFO is going to get cheaper/easier.
Looks like my monthly trip to SFO is going to get cheaper/easier.
Feb 16, 2013, 9:52 pm
#7
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Los Gatos, CA
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Alaska and other Airlines have tried this route... it's not a money maker...
FYI: Austin is in Texas not far from Dallas... heavy AA elite territory, they are not going to jump ship. I fly AA weekly... sorry most on the plane are not headed to Austin.
FYI: Austin is in Texas not far from Dallas... heavy AA elite territory, they are not going to jump ship. I fly AA weekly... sorry most on the plane are not headed to Austin.
Feb 16, 2013, 11:06 pm
#8
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: LAS
Posts: 70
Feb 18, 2013, 3:02 pm
#9
Join Date: Mar 2011
Programs: AA Platinum Pro, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Exploralist, Marriot Silver
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The real competition is United, which flies SFO-AUS multiple times daily, now even with some mainline planes. I don't know why VX keeps choosing routes dominated by another airline...
Feb 18, 2013, 6:04 pm
#10
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Now if only they would come to the Houston market. They can't get there fast enough......
Then Sir Richard can free us from Jeff's prison.....err, fortress hub at IAH.
Then Sir Richard can free us from Jeff's prison.....err, fortress hub at IAH.
Feb 18, 2013, 6:07 pm
#11
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: IAH
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Fly VX, or any other carrier, instead of that flight from AUS to the SFO market. 4 hours locked inside a SkyWest bucket? That's 4 hours of pure torture.
Feb 21, 2013, 4:26 pm
#12
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Location: Apex, NC
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UA will soon have 6 daily SFO-AUS flights, 2x mainline, 4x RJ.
No doubt meant to fight VX.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...six-daily.html
No doubt meant to fight VX.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...six-daily.html
Feb 24, 2013, 8:37 pm
#13
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UA will soon have 6 daily SFO-AUS flights, 2x mainline, 4x RJ.
No doubt meant to fight VX.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...six-daily.html
No doubt meant to fight VX.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...six-daily.html
Mar 3, 2013, 8:00 pm
#14
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA and everywhere else
Programs: VX Gold, UA MM, SPG Plat
Posts: 707
The CRJs United does SFO-AUS are horrible. It's not an appropriate service between these two stations given all the tech flyers, and the service onboard is horrible. I was 1K Million Miler doing that route, and felt like cattle.
I was so excited to hear that VX is now taking the route on. It won't snag many flyers based in AUS, but it will definitely make a lot of VX people in SF happy. One more station I can list when people tell me "but Virgin doesn't fly to enough cities."
Mar 4, 2013, 11:31 am
#15
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As SFOPhD noted, UA is responding with a major show of force in the form of increased frequencies and some upgagues to mainline. If they successfully push VX out of AUS, expect fares to shoot back up and frequencies to reduce again, with CR7s only.