US Airways to Cut Mainline Service in Pittsburgh in Early 2008
US Airways is going to further reduce its service in Pittsburgh, where the airline said it has lost more than $40 million over the past 12 months alone.
The airline said it will reduce its mainline flying January 6 from 31 to 22 daily flights “focusing on customers’ preferred destinations.” Those preferred destinations will include larger East and West Coast business markets such as Los Angeles; San Francisco; New York; Washington (National); and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and US Airways hubs in Philadelphia; Charlotte, N.C.; and Phoenix.
US Airways said nonstop service to Florida also will continue and it expects regional flying to smaller cities to drop from 77 to 46 daily flights, based on its assumptions of what the independent regional operators will do.
US Airways previously downsized its operations at Pittsburgh from a hub to a “focus city” in November 2004, discontinuing service on 20 US Airways and US Airways Express nonstop routes. At the time, that reduction left it with service to more than 50 cities.
