As a South Florida resident and oneworld frequent flyer, here’s a new route I’m pretty excited about.
Continue reading: Alaska Airlines Adds Portland To Miami Flights
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Ben - despite the City of Portland being a complete dumpster fire, the Oregon Coast, wine country, Bend and the Columbia River Gorge remain terrific places to visit. LMK if you need ideas for a review trip.
Not sure flying all the way to Portland (or Seattle) makes sense from Miami if you are connecting to Hawaii. As an AA flyer you have a choice of more sensible connections (DFW, PHX, LAX)...
They also added JFK-PSP on Dec 14 which is really odd to have a non hub flight to the east coast (SAN is a defecto hub)
AS needs to up it's transcon experience.
I'm not expecting flatbeds, but at least bring it on par to VX.
Demand from JFK to PSP from mid-December until the end of April is very high. The only game in town has been B6 with a redeye, and its ontime performance on the route has been abysmal. Alaska is a major player in PSP especially in-season. Also, given its relationship with AA - which represents another huge pocket of AA elites in this market - I'm betting this flight flies full all winter long.
This post made me think: are there any widebody transcons any more? When I started flying in the mid-90s and on into the 2000s, I regularly flew wide from Atlanta to the west coast. My first ever widebody was a L-1011 (probably still my all-time favorite plane) from ATL to LAX. I have flown 767s from ATL to DFW, SLC, LAX, and SEA (I think). 6h is a long time in a narrowbody, though I suppose once you are in your seat, especially if in economy, it really doesn't matter much.
Agreed. The Pacific Northwest is just a gorgeous part of the country. I had a chance to take a job out there about 15 years ago but I just could not do it. Just too far from home (ATL).
Delta still flies 767 and United still flies the 777.
Historically even 747 flew transcon.
At the other end of size, it's a matter of time before the A220 flies transcon.
The schedule is only through top of January. Then switches to morning departure from PDX/evening from MIA.
Clarify: A220 does fly them already on few transcon, what I mean is they over take 737 and 320 as majority on transcons.
While it's fun to write sensational things online, the reality is that *parts* of Portland are dumpster fires (literally). The vast majority of the city is great and getting better. There's still work to do, however!
Portland has the same issues as any big city, but it's great, despite what exaggerated media likes to portray.
American used to operate a lot of the MIA-LAX frequencies with 777/767s. Now it’s down to one per day each direction, and there’s none loaded for September onwards. I’m flying back from SYD via LAX and dreading a 5 hour recliner seat red eye after all that travel
Hey everyone! This isn't true. We have a highly visible homeless population, but despite what the news says, Portland remains an incredibly safe city by American standards. It is also an adult playground with the food, wine, beer, cannabis, coast, and mountains aplenty. Come. You'll enjoy yourself.
This route will do very well. I am surprised AA has not given it a shot.
The 2nd timings after the new year are much better and provide better connectivity to AA (especially Caribbean and short haul South Am).
The original timings are limited for connectivity in MIA.
Portland isn’t a dumpster fire. It is addressing its problems and is significantly cleaned up from this time last year.
No, Portland represents an unbridled failure from a governance perspective and deniers like you continue to exacerbate the problems by failing to acknowledge and in turn deal with them. Enjoy your massive taxes and urban blight. I’ll be up in Vantucky.
I personally prefer the former schedule. The latter schedule is too interrupting during peak hours of the day/evening.
Hooray! I’ve achieved LIFETIME status with AA some 5 years ago and will definitely use the flights to visit family in PDX. Will wait until new schedule in January because it’s a more civilized schedule to me. I avoid red eye flights
AS has a seasonal flight from PDX to FLL which is what I prefer, traffic in Miami especially to the airport is just awful and I find MIA always chaotic. This is good news though that AS is flying PDX-MIA year round, I won't have to connect in SEA if I'm flying to South Florida between June and October.