Midsize airports hit with large-scale flight cuts
Skift Take
Smaller airports are using all kinds of strategies to lure airlines into starting service there. Airlines understandably are driven toward finding profitable routes, and that means it is an uphill battle for these smaller airports.
Airline mergers, a deep recession and surging fuel prices have led to sharp cuts in airline service around the country. Hardest hit: medium-size airports.
In California, Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, LA/Ontario International Airport and other mid-size airports lost an average of 26.2 percent of their flights from 2007 to 2012, according to a new study by MIT's International Center for Air Transportation [em
