US Airways drops some flights; Horizon adds service

By Joe Brancatelli

ROUTE MAP

US Airways Continues to Shrink It Network: US Airways, the smallest of the nation’s so-called “legacy carriers”– that’s the name for airlines tracing their lineage to the time before the 1978 deregulation of commercial air service — is shrinking again. The airline will drop two more domestic destinations (Colorado Springs and Wichita); shrink its one-time hub in Las Vegas to just 36 daily flights; and end flights from Philadelphia to five European destinations (Birmingham; London/Gatwick; Milan; Stockholm; and Shannon).

Three Midwest cities — Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Quincy and Marion, Illinois — are back on the route map. Cape Air is using turboprops to reconnect connect the cities to St. Louis.

Horizon Air, Alaska Airlines’ commuter carrier, launched new flights to Mammoth Mountain, California, that will operate between Dec. 17 and April 11. The flights will depart from Reno, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Jose.