I was perusing around the interweb this morning and discovered this thread on FlyerTalk which points out that US Airways has loaded it’s first round of new schedules following the big slot swap with Delta. I only checked one route, DCA-FAY, which I might actually use, and it starts on 3/25/12. While I’m not surprised that things are majority RJ, I would hope that phase 2 of the expansion will include some additional mainline service to somewhere. 🙂 The last thing US needs is a bevy of new 50 seat CRJs trying to fly in/out of the gate 35A charlie foxtrot at DCA. There’s a Milepoint thread on the same topic you can review here.
According to the poster on FT, here’s the first round of destinations:
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DCA:
BDL 1x E70 BGR 2x CRJ BHM 3X CRJ FAY 1X CRJ IND 1X E70 ISP 2x CRJ LIT 2x E70 MEM 3x CRJ OAJ 1x CRJ OMA 1x E70 PNS 2x CRJ SAV 1x CRJ TLH 1x CRJ VPS 1x CRJ CLT-DSM 2x CRJ |
Is there a list of the DL losses (routes cut)anywhere?
Some references in this FT thread.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta-skymiles/1291638-dl-lga-slot-swap-flight-loaded-3.html
Curious they have added OAJ and ILM is not on initial list as we enjoyed weekend service this past summer and ILM reportedly has extremely high concentration of Chairman’s Preferred Members. Hopefully meaningful ILM to DCA service will be added later.
About all I can think of for OAJ is government/military business. Same for Fayetteville (and MJonTravel visiting his mother). I would think ILM would attract plenty of traffic from a broader array of travelers.
No, it’s Jacksonville, NC. Serviced 1x daily with a CRJ.
For OAJ, do you mean JAX?