Originally Posted by
Green Banana
You have to look at the money that will be lost competing with Alaska out of SEA. We have shown we will match or beat any set price out of our hubs, so it would be bloody. It may be cheaper to use that money to eliminate the competition by buying them and then have a monopoly. I am not saying I want this, just pointing out economics of it.
If the premise is that we're feeding our international service, then we're not really competing. A ticket from GEG to SEA might be less expensive on Alaska, but we'd be selling a ticket from GEG to PVG or NRT.