Originally Posted by
WutFace
You might think passengers don't care about comfort, but you'd never know. Passengers who do care about comfort don't fly on Alaska.
And if you're comparing notes with Southwest and how they utilize their 737s, you should look at the whole picture.
- They don't fly redeyes
- They don't fly 6 hour transcons
- They have several hubs located in the middle of the country
They keep their stage lengths short so people don't fatigue out. AS has no concept of what people are looking for in the premium transcon market.
So unless Alaska has a St. Louis base in its future, you should stop copying off of Southwest's homework.
They couldn't fly red eyes because their scheduling computers could not handle it.
They do fly 6 hour trans cons.... BWI to SAN to name one. RDU to SJC.... and they don't feed you anything but pretzels.
Who wants to stop and change planes? I don't.