BoeingGuy wrote:vadodara wrote:F9Animal wrote:I know US did well on the SEA to PIT route. I worked for US before all the mergers, and the flights were always full. If I recall, we had a 321 on the route for awhile.
I am certain AS will do really good on it.
With PIT getting some traffic with the likes of Uber, Google etc, perhaps a PIT-SJC might be next!
I thought I recalled US doing SJC-PIT very briefly, but I can't find any confirmation of it.
I'm not surprised at all at AS adding SEA-PIT. What's left? Maybe a few more viable markets. US did up to 3x or 4x daily SEA-PIT back around 1999. They had one PHL non-stop back then.
What's nexr for AS? CLT? CMN? CVG? CLE? BDL? Not a lot left that they don't already serve.
Seems to me the secondary midwest cities that are not wannabe hubs are on the list. As you pointed out, likes of CMH, CVG, CLE, BDL, and so forth. Once they resolve the E170's issue, they will be back in business. Point is, SEA will be the first city pair. They can then follow it up with SJC, SAN, and so forth. With VS, possibilities of SFO/LAX also exists.
Pretty good strategy once they iron out VS wrinkles, which though are many.