Virgin America to drop Toronto, shift flights to Dallas

[metroplex]

yeah and miles from your crappy AA loyalty program that you can never use......

 

[scarlet]

AA will kill anyone on these routes. Airtran tried years ago to LAX/SFO/LAS/MCO/ATL from DFW=guess what, yep 757 and 767 10-14 flights a day to these markets

 

[Ralph Cramden]

And AA has a dozen widebody flights a day in LAX JFK, but we do quite well in that market. We will never "take over" DFW to LA/SF, but will put just enough capacity in to do well in them. AA will give out double miles and match fares for sure but there is enough traffic for us to fill up a few flights a day. ORD to LA/SF will be the same.

 

[tzskipper]

AA will kill anyone on these routes. Airtran tried years ago to LAX/SFO/LAS/MCO/ATL from DFW=guess what, yep 757 and 767 10-14 flights a day to these markets

Fwiw, senior management at VA has ex-AA/AMR senior management in both the CEO and Chairman of the Board positions. CEO was 20+ years there.

Not that it is good or bad, but they probably have a very good idea of the DFW market and how AA would respond.

 

[hyflyin]

Congrats Tomct.....

try an international route structure, solid miles program, Admiral's club, alliances....etc etc.

Virgins are tied together through code share, have it, who cares (but we have it and its growing), coming soon (I agree with you, Delta needs another good domestic code share partner).

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

(i agree with you, delta needs another good domestic code share partner).

no we don't!!!

 

[skypine69]

nobody has any idea how anyone is "doing" in a particular market....especially pilots! YOu might fly that route once, twice a week and yeah, maybe the flights you work are full, but you have no idea how much the average ticket price and all the other add ons come out to.

 

[Lake Alice]

Technically you are incorrect it is just a lot of work to garner the information. The information is public but scattered.