Like all - fwd bookings on the Pac route are down - and the NSR on transpac ops has been steadily falling for all carriers. Reality is that it just is not the goldmine it once was.
Intell says that the Jan-March qtr is particularly low for inbounds ex West coast and this will be further compounded by the continued decline in the US domestic market - without a strong [profitable] feeder network/alliance your primary market is constrained. Codeshare is more about reciprocal revenue chanels than just swapping seat capacity.
It's going to be a hard call for the
VB Board, especially given the cash pressures on the domestic business and the planned reduction (sic; Brettspeak - 'adjustment') in ops - but even more worrying for those VA crews that are sitting on the sideline waiting for the chance to run on.
Hope they get a chance to at least give it go.