Comments on: Delta Shrinks Cincinnati Again

By: dan powers

dan powers — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:05:24 +0000

next flight to get axed = cvg-cdg…if lucky cvg will be a focus city. now that atl signed a deal with dl…i forsee mem getting downsized.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:56:49 +0000

CVG may be Southwest’s next new city? Dallas Morning News quoted Southwest as saying they would be opening new cities in 2010 similar to LGA, BOS, MKE and MSP in 2009.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:50:43 +0000

PF wrote:

Do you know how DL is doing in SLC?

I haven't looked at the govt data lately, but it's really their only option in the west right now. I can't imagine that will go anywhere. John wrote:

and just this week they file schedule with HSV out in the spring

Oh boy. Death by a thousand cuts . . .

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:10:05 +0000

and just this week they file schedule with HSV out in the spring

By: PF

PF — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:39:27 +0000

Do you know how DL is doing in SLC?

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:59:57 +0000

@ David SFeastbay: Not only is Detroit close but Atlanta and Memphis aren't that much farther, either. And really, what use does Delta have for all these hubs? Surely if they were willing to drop a hub at a metro as big as Dallas, we shouldn't be surprised to see them ditch Cincinatti.

By: ShaneLAX

ShaneLAX — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:11:57 +0000

Went through there last week on a LAX-CVG-PVD itinerary. It was sad to see such a large airy facility being underutilized. Now it’s getting sadder. Even most of the concession businesses didn’t open until 8am.

I would hope that another carrier might take advantage of the situation. It wouldn’t surprise me if the local governments started offering incentives to airlines.

By: David SFeastbay

David SFeastbay — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:30:52 +0000

DTW and CVG are to close to each other. What would be the advantage of keeping both anyway. With costs the way they are and all the airlines doing what they can to save money, there is not much of a benefit to keeping service up at both.

By: Nicholas Barnard

Nicholas Barnard — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:31:45 +0000

While I still have ties to Cincinnati I root for this hub to get smaller and smaller. (and I lived in the town the airport actually gets its code from, Covington, Kentucky. Yeah Cincinnati airport is in Kentucky.)

I remember back in my flight school days that the CVG controllers had a really big head especially when they got declared Class B airspace. I wonder if they’ll go back to Class C….

By: Zack Rules, Albany, NY

Zack Rules, Albany, NY — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:56:52 +0000

I think Delta recently dropped it’s Boston-Fort Lauderdale nonstop flights. Jetblue and Spirit hammered their yields.