US Airways unveils major new schedule changes
As part of what it is calling a “Transformation Plan,” US Airways restructured its flight schedule for next year.
The airline says that better efficiencies will allow it to add an additional 230 daily flights without any new aircraft. Among schedule changes:
• Total departures at the airline’s Philadelphia hub will increase to 495, for a 7% increase.
• Flights from another hub, Charlotte, will grow from 495 to 564 daily. Charlotte will continue as a “modified hub-and-spoke system,” according to the airline.
• The carrier will add new nonstop service to six key business destinations from Reagan Washington National Airport. These cities are Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth and Houston. Total departures from the airport will not change, but seat capacity will increase by 40% because of larger aircraft.
• US Airways will continue to operate about 229 daily departures to 67 destinations from a hub in Pittsburgh.
• The US Airways Shuttle will continue to operate hourly between New York, Boston and Reagan National but there will be some “slight changes” to its schedule to increase efficiency, the airline says.
• US will continue to offer nonstop service to its existing 11 destinations in Europe from Philadelphia and Charlotte. Overall Atlantic capacity is expected to remain unchanged in 2005, the airline says.
• The airline, as previously announced, will expand service at Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood next February.
Report by David Wilkening
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