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Old 02-07-2012 | 12:58 PM
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Alaska Airlines to fly from SEA to Philadelphia, Fort Lauderdale - Puget Sound Business Journal

Adding:
Seattle - Philadelphia
Seattle - Ft. Lauderdale
Sacramento - Maui (3 more/week)
San Diego - Maui (4 more/week)

Losing:
Seattle - Miami
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Old 02-07-2012 | 04:16 PM
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Hopefully the first of a few new routes for AS, maybe IND/RDU/CLT in the future?...and hopefully QX will do well in the SAN market, enough to warrant new routes from SoCal.
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Old 02-07-2012 | 04:56 PM
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How do you folks at Alaska like it there? I've never done 121; Alaska is one of the few that I've ever been interested in.
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Old 02-08-2012 | 05:22 AM
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Originally Posted by SurferLucas
Hopefully the first of a few new routes for AS, maybe IND/RDU/CLT in the future?...and hopefully QX will do well in the SAN market, enough to warrant new routes from SoCal.
Rdu/clt are close to each other It'd make little sense. Plus IND I'm unsure if would work. Smaller market then people think. Heck delta just started SLC for the first time in a long time and only once a day on a 900.....

Best of luck in phl as Airways and SWA pretty much offer service with non stop for cheap.... Swa is even pulling phl flying on many routes because Airways killed them....

Alaska has many great crews. Wish them nothing but the best. East coast is just already saturated I'm unsure how well other markets to hubs of competitors would do....
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Old 02-08-2012 | 05:34 AM
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Rdu/clt are close to each other It'd make little sense. Plus IND I'm unsure if would work. Smaller market then people think. Heck delta just started SLC for the first time in a long time and only once a day on a 900.....

Best of luck in phl as Airways and SWA pretty much offer service with non stop for cheap.... Swa is even pulling phl flying on many routes because Airways killed them....

Alaska has many great crews. Wish them nothing but the best. East coast is just already saturated I'm unsure how well other markets to hubs of competitors would do....
"Plus IND I'm unsure if would work. Smaller market then people think." ***? I'm unsure if brain talk to fingers.
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Old 02-08-2012 | 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by meyers9163
Rdu/clt are close to each other It'd make little sense. Plus IND I'm unsure if would work. Smaller market then people think. Heck delta just started SLC for the first time in a long time and only once a day on a 900.....

Best of luck in phl as Airways and SWA pretty much offer service with non stop for cheap.... Swa is even pulling phl flying on many routes because Airways killed them....

Alaska has many great crews. Wish them nothing but the best. East coast is just already saturated I'm unsure how well other markets to hubs of competitors would do....
I think you did not read where Alaska is flying from. SWA does not fly non-stop from SEA-PHL. US Airways is pretty much it. Done that flight plenty of times and they are packed solid. I'm sure there is more marketshare waiting.
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Old 02-08-2012 | 08:28 AM
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I think you did not read where Alaska is flying from. SWA does not fly non-stop from SEA-PHL. US Airways is pretty much it. Done that flight plenty of times and they are packed solid. I'm sure there is more marketshare waiting.
I read it. Fly to Seattle to connect seems like a plan. Delta and United and now Virgin already do this flying to the west coast to connect. I wonder how many people in philly are trying to get to small NW cities?

Also IND is still a smaller market. The airport had been having financial issues with the new terminal. I'm thinking if IND was a big market there would be no financial issues with our new terminal. Living here I can tell you not many people are connecting to the NW and most travel east or to FL.... You can think what you want but IND is a smaller market then most think. No its not a kfay kevv or kfwa but its not a Dca phl lga ord dtw cvg cmh etc.... We still are a smaller city....

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_the_United_States

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Old 02-08-2012 | 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by meyers9163
Best of luck in phl as Airways and SWA pretty much offer service with non stop for cheap.... Swa is even pulling phl flying on many routes because Airways killed them....

Alaska has many great crews. Wish them nothing but the best. East coast is just already saturated I'm unsure how well other markets to hubs of competitors would do....
From our VP of Planning and revenue management:
"Harrison believes Alaska can compete with US Airways because “our costs are coming down and the balance of originating traffic is in our favor. More people in Seattle — where we are strong — want to go to Philadelphia than people in Philadelphia — where US Airways is strong — want to come to Seattle,” he said."

I've met this guy and think he is one of Alaska's greatest management assets.
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I think they will probably do well. Our planning dept. chooses to put little value on growth out west, so in the right markets someone else will. Whether it's SEA to PHX, PHL, or CLT, our flights out of Seattle are always packed.
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Old 02-09-2012 | 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Pelican
From our VP of Planning and revenue management:
"Harrison believes Alaska can compete with US Airways because “our costs are coming down and the balance of originating traffic is in our favor. More people in Seattle — where we are strong — want to go to Philadelphia than people in Philadelphia — where US Airways is strong — want to come to Seattle,” he said."

I've met this guy and think he is one of Alaska's greatest management assets.
We lost one of our brightest to cancer, unfortunately. Guys like that are hard to replace.
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