The ALC fiasco raises a question. Do airlines fly to:
a) where pax want to go?
b) where the airline gets the cheapest deal?
If so many routes are taken from ALC, but the pax still want to go there, the only option is to de-plane to a competitior. Is that good business practice; to force your customers into the arms of another?
At some places the 25 min turn-round is a non-starter anyway: Spain & Italy being obvious examples. Just another item of the SWA model that was adopted but applied under different conditions.