VX drops SJC?
 

I was on a SFO-LAX flight this morning and heard that VX will discontinue SJC this coming May. He said an announcement will be out shortly.

After about one year of service and a sizable "donation" from SJC, this route was doomed from the beginning, IMO. Upwards of five carriers offering service is a little too much. I heard their weekday flights were often in the 20% LF range.

I just checked on Virgin America's reservations page, and indeed it shows no availability after 5/14.

RIP :(

I rode this last year a few weeks after it came out and there was all of 20 of us on the plane -- lie-flat economy.

Article is out: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/n....html?page=all

VX should fire its planning and scheduling department, and seek advice on flyertalk instead. Everyone knew this route would be unsuccessful, except VX and SJC.

SJC-JFK would have been a better route

How do you fire darts and a dartboard?

If SJC gave a big enough subsidy, perhaps this was worthwhile for VX for a year.

That'd be worse than SJC-LAX. With no feed on either end of SJC-JFK, it's a tough sell to begin with. When you consider B6's hub at JFK, it'd be game over before takeoff.

Yeah, this is a big :rolleyes:.

So, let's see, SNA, SJC, YYZ, LAX-PDX... for a small airline that's a lot of misfires.

VX didn't decrease their PDX service. When LAX-PDX ended they moved the frames up to start 3x daily SFO-PDX.

Enough to pay for construction cost, fuel, plane, insurance, crew, marketing? I'm sure they received a good subsidy, but not enough to account for the $/time lost for a year.

In the end, poor decision, even if the subsidy covered everything because the route failed. And yes, I don't know how to fire darts & a dartboard. I wonder who is the next lucky employee to throw the dart for their next route.

They still dropped a route.

Oh, and I forgot ANC.

Too bad this didn't work out. It was a nice option to have if you still wanted a mainline plane and didn't want to fly WN.

:o:o

When did VX fly into SNA?

They started SNA-SFO back in 2009. The route was dropped about a year later.