You do understand that a large number of the passengers arriving on the Delta international flights connect on Alaska? That means less flights equals fewer jobs at Alaska. This also has no bearing on domestic expansion. The current plan is for SEA to be the first C100 base.

It's so cute how protective some of you are over one city...

Just talked to one of the SEA tech ops big wigs recently. He said SEA is planned to double in size once everything is completed, terminal and customs.

So, that's what, about 8-10 years?! And there is no way there will be that many more gates, and the runways cannot handle that much more traffic. I think your tech ops dude is dreaming ...

If you want to believe that go ahead. Delta has already said SEA will grow, the cseries are going there and international will grow once a new customs facility is built.

If you build it they will come.

If it does turn out to be true that SEA will be the first C-Series base, it'll be a big middle finger to Boeing, too. Intentional or not, that's a bold move.

I think AK buying an all airbus airline and potentially operating them is more of a middle finger.

No different than if the E190s showed up and went to SEA as planned.
I like to think if Boeing cared so much then we would have had a Boeing order.

please stop using logic

Not much Alaska could control regarding VA's fleet type. My money is that Alaska most likely will replace those Airbuses with Boeing once they start timing out. Our decision to go with Bombardier is more intentional.

That being said, I think United forced our hand when they ordered those extra 737-700 NGs thereby most likely selling out the remaining order slots before Boeing goes all MAX.