NYCAviation:
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Six Cities to Lose AirTran Service as Southwest Integration Accelerates
Southwest Airlines announced on Friday that it will erase Allentown, Lexington, Harrisburg, Sarasota, Huntsville and White Plains from AirTran's route map this August, while the carrier's remaining 22 cities transition to Southwest-brand service.
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Too bad about HPN. If it weren't for those capacity restrictions WN would be able to make it work. More NYC area business for them.
This is a TREMENDOUS hit to my home market. Between 30 and 40% reduction of departures and aircraft movements annually as a result. We kind of expected it down there but Fred put a huge fight up to keep us in the stay list. Hopefully someone can step back up. A big reason Continental pulled out was due to the influx of seats in and out of SRQ by Air Tran. It would be nice to see United come back and make a go as ORD and CLE are HUGE markets for SRQ.