Delta airline has or will be suspending service to these cities. Some on present routes and others that would be nice to fill in.
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All of those were served by regional jets. I wonder how much Federal $$ for Essential Air service they got.
Is the point of this topic to show that Amtrak could pick up some new destinations because the airlines are pulling out of service to those locations? It does seem to, to me.
Since this topic seems to be implying an opportunity for Amtrak to pick up this newly low-hanging fruit, it might also be useful to make sure that another airline isn’t still offering these flights.
Santa Barbara is already served by Amtrak. Any others?
Ed
I might comment that the territory that was ‘served’ by Avoca would be low-hanging fruit indeed if the Scranton service were introduced…
And if you’ve ever been through Avoca you’ll sure know why.
Erie is served by the LSL… at about 2:40 in the morning at a closed station.
The problem would be that Amtrak does not necessarily service the origins that the air lines have as their origins.
About 25 years ago I flew into Akron on Delta, my actual origin was Jacksonville and the origin of the flight to Akron was Atlanta. As I recall the Atlanta-Akron leg of the fight was serviced with a MD-11 in both directions.
If the airlines can’t make a go of it…?
You could have won a beer by betting with me on that one. I would have guessed regional jet…or turboprop…
Likely continuing on (possibly with additional stops) to a major destination like Chicago. And then perhaps ‘pathed’ from there to the West Coast when the aircraft was turned.
These from the earlier list are served by Amtrak:
- Erie, Pennsylvania.
- Flint, Michigan.
- Grand Junction, Colorado.
- La Crosse, Wisconsin.
- Lincoln, Nebraska.
- Newport News, Virginia.
- Santa Barbara, California.
Madison, WI
Rochester, MN
Columbus, OH
Phoenix, AZ
Delta stopped flying the MD-11 after 9/11. They leased them to World A