Originally Posted by
av8or
I thought that maybe since Alaska is going to all the East and Southeast destinations, maybe they’d be gearing up for trying to market themselves as a better alternative to Delta or JetBlue to people who previously never considered Alaska.... but they aren’t.
Alaska??? Not a chance, they have no foresight or desire to be anything other than what they are.
Originally Posted by
av8or
There’s no marketing of Alaska in Nashville to Nashvillians to go to SEA or SFO, or Hawaii. There’s none in ATL or RDU etc. And I wondered “Why? Why would you let Delta come in YOUR town and market themselves as the airline for Washingtonians by being THE airline for the Seahawks and not push back by marketing/educating Delta’s customers in the South, that we have a better product.
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First and foremost DAL has 6x the market cap and AS is afraid to get smacked down like the 4 state bush league regional that it is. Small thinkers get small results. Doing anything different would put AS so far out of its league they just simply would not know what to do.
Hurtling conservatively into the past for 85 years...that's the motto up there on the lake.