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Alaska could take on Allegiant flying out of SEA Paine Field??

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General Lee

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Alaska Airlines on Thursday announced a proposed schedule of flights when commercial plane service comes to Everett’s Paine Field.
In December, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved commercial passenger flights out of the general-aviation airport. It’s unclear how soon flights could take off since an organized community group has long opposed passenger flights at Paine Field; a passenger terminal also has to be built.
Alaska Airlines said it has told the FAA that it could have 28 round-trip flights per week leaving from the Everett airport.
“We continue to believe that our flights at Sea-Tac Airport and in Bellingham best serve the Puget Sound region’s needs for affordable air travel, particularly in light of the significant investments both airports have made recently to improve their facilities,” Andrew Harrison, Alaska Airlines’ vice president of planning and revenue management said in a news release. “That said, if one or more other airlines begin operations at Paine Field, we would commence service alongside these carriers. Submitting a schedule with the FAA along with a request for authorization to serve Paine is a necessary step in the process.”

Alaska is proposing, in the first year, 14 weekly round-trip flights to Las Vegas, Honolulu and Maui, Hawaii, using Boeing 737-800 jet aircraft. Alaska would also fly 21 weekly round-trip flights to Portland with Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft. Not all destinations would be served daily
By its fifth year of operations , Alaska would fly 49 weekly round-trip flights — including 28 round-trips to Las Vegas, Honolulu, Maui, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Diego. There would be 21 weekly round-trips to Portland.

Alaska Airlines operates about 1,750 weekly round-trip flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.



It's funny, but most of those AK proposed cities are also flown by Allegiant at Bellingham I believe..... Would Allegiant be flying out of Paine Field too?



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If there is demand G4 will do it and probably send Alaska packing with it's tail between it's legs.
 
If there is demand G4 will do it and probably send Alaska packing with it's tail between it's legs.

Maybe not packing. World of plenty, I hope. From what I hear, Paine will start out as just another destination from Vegas. The real shot across the bow, will be when the airbus starts doing more parallel stuff out of BLI; such as ANC. Allegiant’s business model is hard to destroy. Low frequency. High Yield. And lean to boot.
 
FWIW BLI was just another small spoke for AK before G4 arrived. Interesting how pretty much every route AK is on out of BLI now competes directly with G4, sans SEA. I won't fault an attempt at competiton at best or saving face at worst, but one has to wonder how AK profits on those routes. The prices they charge probably have to be closer to G4 to compete and that doesn't match AK pricing model FWIU.
 
Allegiant largely create their own demand they can charge prices low enough so that they get the folks who otherwise were not gonna fly. They would probably enter the market with a couple round-trips a week to one or two cities. If Alaska really wants to pre-emtively throw 28 trips a week into Paine well more power to 'em!
 
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Like AK could do that anyway, couldn't do it if they had to! New bid just came out, 8 new capt upgrades for this year? Yet we are expecting well over 50-60 retirements this year!?!? Only 70 new hires?? I'm just not seeing the logic or their reasoning anymore!!!
 
This is a dumb move on ALKs part. They will give attention to the fact that Paine is now open for business. G4 targets the occasional, bare-bones budget flyer.
 
It seems to me all AK would be doing is poaching their own passengers from their SEA flights. Folks who live N. of SEA and are gonna fly Alaska anyway & who would otherwise drive to SEA will take the shorter drive to Paine.
 
Allegiant doesn't make money selling seats... The airplanes are just a tool to get the people to the hotel packages that they purchased.
 

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