Lol as a nyc- lax commuter I can tell you this article is pretty spot on. Our product is a joke comparatively to the big boys. Commuting on own metal has been a last option for me as it is far more comfortable on the competitors if there were enough seats on their wide bodies.
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Cruz5350
I wouldn’t take that article as gospel, during flight path it was said many times that they look at specific profit margins on routes as to wether they open them or keep them. Everyone knows how popular that city pair is and what aircraft are being flown on it. I wouldn’t say it’s that Alaska can’t compete on it they just choose not to. We don’t fly wide bodies that’s a strike against us, we don’t have a dedicated premium transcon airplane that’s another strike against them. I’m sure in whatever accounting fashion they ran the numbers on making one and it didn’t make sense, on top of it you know darn well this has something to do with the One World partnership.