{"id":2163,"date":"2018-03-13T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2018-03-13T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:23:37","slug":"alaska-air-is-cutting-a-bunch-of-california-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Air is Cutting a Bunch of California Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #26282a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"11\">Two years ago,\u00a0<strong>Alaska Air<\/strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ticker\">(NYSE: ALK)<\/span>\u00a0offered a big premium to acquire Virgin America in order to gain a platform for growth in California. Within three months of the acquisition closing, the carrier had announced a massive expansion in California &#8212; including more than a dozen new routes in San Francisco &#8212; Virgin America&#8217;s hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #26282a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"12\">However, Alaska Air&#8217;s 2017 financial performance was disappointing, and the company is still struggling with a combination of rising costs and weak unit revenue in 2018. Much of the unit revenue weakness has been concentrated in California. As a result, Alaska Air has quickly gone from expansion mode to retrenchment, making cutbacks on several routes in California.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/alaska-air-cutting-bunch-california-103500104.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alaska Air cutting California routes<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2164\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alaska_virgin-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1058\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alaska_virgin-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alaska_virgin-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alaska_virgin-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alaska_virgin.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1058px) 100vw, 1058px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago,\u00a0Alaska Air\u00a0(NYSE: ALK)\u00a0offered a big premium to acquire Virgin America in order to gain a platform for growth in California. Within three months of the acquisition closing, the carrier had announced a massive expansion in California &#8212; including more than a dozen new routes in San Francisco &#8212; Virgin America&#8217;s hometown. However, Alaska [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,799],"tags":[539,118,847,412,241],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","tag-air","tag-airlines","tag-alaska","tag-news","tag-virgin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}