Originally Posted by
Packrat
If you don't believe this take a stroll over to the South Satellite. Look out the North facing window. Delta as far as the eye can see. A concourse, B concourse (except for SWA at the end) and the entire South Satellite. Rode on two FULL Delta jets to get home last night.
And check the FIDS board. Delta codeshares with ALL the airlines Alaska USED to code share with. Dumping the AA code share was a HUGE mistake IMHO.
Alaska doesn't have the East/West gravitas to compete with AA and DL. One or two flights a day to a few East Coast and Midwest destinations won't cut it. More and more Alaskans are gravitating to Delta because they can get farther than the West Coast.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Delta, Spirit, Southwest etc. AAG will ALWAYS have a boogie man in their back pocket to use as an excuse for concessions. In good times and bad, they’re gonna use every tactic they can to keep the money on their side of the table. It’s what they do, it’s what EVERY AIRLINE MANAGEMENT DOES. Whether or not someone on the East Coast knows where I fly will not change this. It’s up to the folks in marketing to fix that, not the pilots. You speak of Delta in the South Satellite, remember United in the North? Now it’s all AS jets. We’re still 51% market share in SEA and Delta is a distance second. I think guys n gals are worrying about things they really don’t need to be worried about. OCCP, I think investments in buildings means they plan on growth otherwise why do it? I don’t know your experience but I assume you’ve seen this industry at both ends of the spectrum and know that worrying about things like marketing and what may or may not happen in HI is an exercise in futility. Let the process unfold.