Nov 04 2005
Weep not for USAir and the Lost Pittsburgh Hub
We’ve talked a bit about Airlines and USAirways lock on the Pittsburgh in the past.
As a follow up, it was interesting to learn via an article originally published in the WSJ that Pittsburgh fares are dramatically lower (business fares by 19.1%) thanks to the end of the USAirways Pittsburgh Hub. As such, travel is up dramatically as new and discount airlines, like Southwest, took over the gates once held in the grip of USAirways. So, the Airport is bustling with activity, and the dire predictions of the end of the world — and the airports AirMall — were all gloom and doom predictions gone wrong.
We all ought to get a bit sicker when we start to think about how many tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and breaks were sunk into keeping USAirways in the region over the last few decades.
So, weep not for USAirways. Weep for the region that suffered along with it.
