Hardly surprising, but US Airways has announced additional flight cuts are impending:
For this year, the airline said domestic mainline capacity will be down by 8 percent to 10 percent while total mainline capacity, including international services, will be down 4 percent to 6 percent.
The impact out at CLT is unclear. The sole growth area is international flying to Europe. The airline has already announced that seasonal CLT-CDG service will begin over the summer. Beyond that, additional service to Europe is probably a long way off. Carib/Latin America service looks pretty much unchanged versus last year (or, say, four years ago).
Worth noting is that the number of US Airways flights and seats available at CLT are both up compared to this time last year. The difference — about 2 percent more seats, and 17 flights or so a day — is that the airline added service to a number of destinations last spring and summer. The places the airline is currently flying to from CLT that didn’t a year ago are Austin, San Antonio, Gulfport, Ft. Walton, Daytonia Beach, Key West and Montreal.
Another way of putting it is that the airline has essentially cut around its biggest hub. Whether that can continue is questionable, though there still are some flights out at Las Vegas that could be cut.
