Alfa,

I know I have a purely layman (don't have the big picture) point of view but I find it suspicious when we (Delta) abandon two routes (SEA-OGG and PDX-HNL) and Alaska starts them up within a day or days........ What makes these routes unprofitable for Delta but profitable for Alaska? It just looks funny.....

It just looks like Alaska has all the marbles in this case. The argument that we fly to their hubs can be turned around and I'll say no, they fly to our, much bigger, hubs in ATL, MSP etc. How long has Alaska been doing this flights (SEA-ATL)? As a guess I'd say since we have started codesharing with them....

Denny