OKC loses CVG (DL) [Air] | + Current Route Structure

[SkyWestOKC]

A round of CVG [Cincinnati/Covington International Airport] cuts have been announced, along with this round of cuts OKC will lose it's service to CVG.

This is not a very big deal as we will be gaining the seats to DTW [Detroit] and MSP [Minneapolis/St. Paul].

As far as the CVG service is concerned - they are 50 seats each way that we haven't needed.

Other affected airports include: DSM [Des Moine, IA], YUL [Montreal, Canada], PVD [Providence, RI], and TRI [Tri-City, TN]. These cuts will be removed from the schedule Monday, and the service will last until 10FEB2010.

As of right now, this is our entire non stop air service out of OKC for 10FEB2010+:

SLC - SALT LAKE CITY
DEN - DENVER
LAS - LAS VEGAS MCCARREN
LAX - LOS ANGELES
PHX - PHOENIX SKY HARBOR
MCO - ORLANDO MCCOY
TPA - TAMPA
DFW - DALLAS FT WORTH
DAL - DALLAS LOVE
HOU - HOUSTON HOBBY
IAH - HOUSTON GEORGE BUSH
MEM - MEMPHIS
DTW - DETROIT METROPOLITAN WAYNE COUNTY
MSP - MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL
EWR - NEWARK
ATL - ATLANTA HARTSFIELD JACKSON
BWI - BALTIMORE
IAD - WASHINGTON DULLES
STL - ST LOUIS
MCI - KANSAS CITY (MO)
ORD - CHICAGO O'HARE

-Matt

[venture]

Thanks for the post. Mods can we merge this in with: http://www.okctalk.com/okc-metro-are...iscussion.html

[SkyWestOKC]

Mods, go ahead and merge it (or delete it but allow me to make the post in the other thread). I am fairly new here and did not know about the existing thread.

-Matt

[Larry OKC]

that list is interesting as one of the "challenges" the chamber's convention center study showed was we came up short in non-stop flights...

[SkyWestOKC]

Well, it also needs to be noted that all of those destinations are hubs or strong connection cities, the two exceptions being MCO (Orlando McCoy) and TPA (Tampa).

[chrisok]

This reduction is less about OKC not being able to support it and Delta now having too many hubs in the same geographic area.