wedgetail737 wrote:iamlucky13 wrote:DCA-ROCguy wrote:H
So far, yes. The terminal developer claims they have promising talks going on with multiple other airlines. Who knows what that really means, but like other posters, I could see Delta being interested, and Allegiant has in the past expressed a desire to flight from PAE.
The crowding at SEA is probably most acute for AS, though, so from that perspective this makes the most sense for them. The last two AS flights I've taken into SEA have deplaned at remote stands, because they're out of gates. They also serve a very large proportion of the Puget Sound business travel market, no shortage of which (probably 1/5th, if not more) is closer to PAE than to SEA.
That's not true. UA actually was the first airline to commit to PAE with 3X daily PAE-SFO and PAE-DEN. AS came in 2nd to announce 18X daily flights. Lastly, WN was the third to announce 5X daily flights. That maxes out the allowable number of flights out of PAE.
Could we see PAE expansion? Maybe...but it will be hard to get that through the NIMBY's.
9 months ago when I wrote that, it was true. Alaska was first, and announced they would serve Paine Field with 9 departures daily, but had not announced destinations.
https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2017-05- ... ld-in-2018
3 months later, United announced they would have 3 flights each to DEN and SFO, as you stated.
http://newsroom.united.com/2017-08-10-U ... cisco-Hubs
Alaska still hadn't announced their destinations at that point. They did that 2 months ago, and increased the plans to 13 departures daily. Southwest followed only about 2 weeks later.