Originally Posted by
Lobaeux
I was talking about SEA, AFAIK Spirit doesn't fly to Seattle. I know we serve Portland, but Portland and Seattle are two different markets.
For a crew base, just thinking local economies, PDX would be much more economical than a crew base in SEA.
3 hours is too far of a drive for someone to make just to fly Spirit, when you factor in gas and parking, you may as well just fly Delta or Alaska. And if you live north of Seattle, forget about 3 hours, factor in more like 4-4.5 hours.
Sorry, I missed the part of Sailor's post about it rumored as a base. I saw your PDX? and assumed you meant servicing that corner of the country. I've heard nothing of SEA becoming a base. Normally it seems they serve it, build it up, then make it a crew base. I can't imagine just making a new market, should we even start it, a base right from the start.
I will say, the strange SEA parking email a few months ago was something that made me scratch my head, and could have certainly helped start SEA rumors, either as a new market or an eventual crew base.