It is always helpful if we remember that Alaska Airlines is truly a Regional Airline. According to the Song n Dance guy with the accent at Fight Path all of the west coast trans cons are bleeding cash...some badly. The only trans-cons that make a profit are from the Pac North West. More specifically from SEA as PDX in his words is flat or makes a tiny profit. He went on to say afterwards that North/South does well only because we are hauling Seattleites. That we have struggled to capture any Californians which is why we lose money flying east out of California....Sounds like a regional to me when the is virtually no O&D traffic south of Portland or east of Spokane.