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Alaska Airlines announces 13 new nonstop routes from the Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Three months after its acquisition of Virgin America, Alaska Airlines is growing its Bay Area footprint, adding 13 new nonstop markets from San Francisco International Airport and Mineta San Jose International Airport. The routes mark the single largest new market announcement in Alaska Airlines history. With the additional flights, Alaska Airlines and Virgin America will offer guests 125 daily nonstop flights to 42 destinations from the three major Bay Area airports.

"The 10 new San Francisco routes and three new San Jose routes offer something for both the leisure and business traveler, including exciting destinations like New Orleans, Baltimore, Austin and Kona, Hawaii," said Andrew Harrison, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Alaska Airlines. "Our strategy is to use the same philosophy that's worked well for us in our Pacific Northwest hubs, which is to offer convenient, nonstop flights to the places guests fly to most. And if your itinerary requires travel overseas, our 10 global airline partners offer 137 international departures a week from the Bay Area."

The new flights build on previously announced Bay Area routes scheduled to begin in the coming months, which include San Jose-Newark, San Jose-Burbank, San Francisco-Orlando, San Francisco-Orange County, San Francisco-Minneapolis and San Francisco-Mexico City.

New flights on A320 aircraft:
SFO-PHL
SFO-MSY
SFO-BNA
SFO-IND
SFO-RDU
SFO-BWI
SFO-KOA

New flights on E175 aircraft:
SFO-ABQ
SFO-MCI
SJC-AUS
SJC-TUS
SJC-LAX (4x daily)

New nonstop flights from San Diego

This fall, Alaska Airlines will bring you 7 new nonstop flights from San Diego. The addition of these new routes means we’ll be flying a total of 40 daily flights to 29 destinations from San Diego International Airport.

That’s oodles and oodles of flights taking you to more places you want to go.

San Diego (SAN) - Austin (AUS)
San Diego (SAN) - Omaha (OMA)
San Diego (SAN) - Albuquerque (ABQ)
San Diego (SAN) - Minneapolis (MSP)
San Diego (SAN) - Kansas City (MCI)
San Diego (SAN) - St. Louis (STL)
San Diego (SAN) - Mexico City (MEX)

Articles:

https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2017-...m-the-Bay-Area

https://www.alaskaair.com/content/ci...N||-prodID:NMA

Work2much

Love that there's so much growth out of SFO and SAN!

The only crappy part about this is that every single one of the SAN flights and 38% of the other new routes will be flown by SkyWest or Horizon. Maybe one day they'll up gage to mainline but for now it's mostly a win for the regionals.

ShyGuy

As long as the ATP rule stays, good luck finding regional pilots. Even at Horizon.

Galaxy5

Horizon is having significant trouble.

Jetlife

This is why scope is going to be the real key in the JCBA.

Work2much

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...ion/100366626/

Oh look! More new routes! Oh wait....SkyWest is doing all of it. . Once again, SCOPE is needed!! These new route announcements are getting depressing seeing that the vast majority of them are ALL using SkyWest 175s.

N19906

News flash: Skywest may be doing all of it soon.

QX management is threatening to give OO all of the new ERJs if the union doesn't fold on compensation (again). They can't attract enough new people with the current payscale they insisted on.

No 737 routes, no QX routes, just subcontractor routes.

Bugaboo

Im not defending the company's decision and I agree that SCOPE is mandatory.....but not ALL of this is going to Skywest. All but one round trip between DAL-SEA. 😞
The yields on the DAL-LGA/DCA have been horrible due to SWA discounting tickets so those routes are unprofitable. I can understand the decision that Alaska has made though. VA jets will be displaced to other new routes off the west coast.
Maybe it is time to take the E-175 flying into the Alaska fold? Not flown by Horizon....not by Skywest....but by Alaska pilots. Im sure that could be a chitshow but could that be done?

BiloxiJack

These posts are absolutely depressing and discouraging.. after reading that article on pulse this morning, literally sat there thinking... "ummm... good for Skywest?" The only benefit that today's announcement brought was to the bottom line. I would say it was another shot at the confidence in management as they further outsourced our jobs to a regional partner, and not even to our red headed step child who can't seem to get their act together. Its time to eliminate all regional flying and bring it all back to us... southwest does it, there is no reason we need a regional partner on anything but small market routes to hubs. End of story.

Work2much

Totally agree. I think there is a place for the regional flying and it make sense. Feeder routes to the hubs are needed and the Q has been good for that. But now the strategy has changed. They're now using the 175 to supplement mainline routes and that's a super slippery slope. The only way to stop that is to include scope in the contract. Without that there's no stopping the 175 growth. I'm sure it's great for the bottom line but it's terrible for mainline jobs.