Look for Delta Air Lines to drop service from Jacksonville (the one in North Carolina) to its big Atlanta hub come April. Jacksonville will still have US Airways flights to its Charlotte hub.
And in other negative route developments ? and don?t look for press releases on these sorts of changes ? Delta also looks to be dropping its daily flight from RDU to its Salt Lake City hub. The airline ended its daily Charlotte – Salt Lake City nonstop back in September.
These changes highlight that Delta is the big airline that?s most willing to experiment with routes and markets. They throw things at the proverbial wall; some things work (stick), some don?t. Ask Hickory, Kinston, and Southern Pines/Moore County, all of which have seen Delta come and go in the past few years.
Of course, this also means that if the recently announced RDU – Paris service doesn?t do as well as hoped, it will be cut in a year or two and Delta will just try someplace else.
