A few days ago Continental described the cuts it was making in its fleet. Well yesterday they issued another press release about what routes would be affected. And all I can say is, poor Cleveland. It’s getting the mostthe cuts in terms of domestic hubs. Remember how earlier Continental was expanding there? The city is losing most of that new service, though the new seasonal Paris flight seems safe (for now).
Some of these route cuts make sense to me, some don’t. For example, cutting the Hartford to House route is sensible as that flight was already seasonal (as was pointed out on Airlines.net). Newark to Salt Lake City confuses me a bit, as I thought it would be important in terms of passengers wanting to continue their trips with Contiental’s Skyteam partner Delta.
Fifteen cities will be taken off the route map due to these cuts, which is probaly where a good chunk of Continental’s planned job losses will take place. The one city that stood out for me was Oakland, California, simply because American announced the same about a month ago. Like American, Continental probably doesn’t want to deal with the strong LCC presence from JetBlue and Southwest at that airport.
US Airways also announced its cuts yetersday, and I plan to share my thoughts on those later today.
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