VX drops SJC?

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Mar 13, 2014 | 11:06 pm

minhaoxue

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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.

Mar 13, 2014 | 11:40 pm

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

Mar 14, 2014 | 12:59 am

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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.

Mar 14, 2014 | 1:14 am

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

Mar 14, 2014 | 8:22 am

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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.

Mar 14, 2014 | 11:31 am

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SJC-JFK would have been a better route

Mar 14, 2014 | 11:40 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fishy21

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.

How do you fire darts and a dartboard?

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

Mar 14, 2014 | 12:40 pm

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SJC-JFK would have been a better route

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.

Mar 14, 2014 | 12:51 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fishy21

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.

Yeah, this is a big

.

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

Mar 14, 2014 | 1:22 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eponymous_coward

Yeah, this is a big

.

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.

Mar 14, 2014 | 1:55 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LarkSFO

How do you fire darts and a dartboard?

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

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.