In a message dated 7/20/2003 3:19:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mmontano@xxxxxxxxx writes: << Wasn't AA treating San Jose as a bit of a tech-industry oriented hub? Weren't they flying some 777s out of these to the far east? They still have some regular service to Austin TX (Silicon Desert.) They still fly the daily 777 to NRT. SJC is not so much a hub, as it is a place where they have a presence <<So it's not surprising that AA had some RJs feeding those flights.>> They are also trying to compete with WN, though using ERJs against WN 737s is like bringing a knife to a gun fight << But SNA/SAN<->SJC would fit the original authors criteria. They avoid LAX, and pose an alternative to SFO, which of course is a strong UAL town. >> Again, while these can feed their NRT flights for AAdvantage members, The SNA PAX could always drive the 40 minutes to LAX and catch one of something like 6 non-stops a day to NRT (including JAL, who give AA miles). I think these are alternatives to the WN service to SJC and OAK, as well as UA's SFO services