The final schedule has not been loaded for beyond April. As for why an airline would take a flight away has anyone thought that maybe it does not make money. I can see what the repsonse will be already BTW.
How dare they don't they know that frequency takes precedence over profit concerns.
I'm not so sure about that.
My personal source of frustration has been out of SAN.
USAirways planning has always seen SAN much like Europe. A "seasonal" destination in their assessment.
Consequently over the last 19 years one never knows what to expect from USAirways when scheduling non-stops from SAN to PIT-CLT-PHL.
Example: Last summer 4 N/S SAN-PHL 2 SAN-CLT 1 SAN PIT (All A321)
Currently 2 N/S SAN PHL (One is HP 319 Metal) with no early AM departure to connect to afternoon bank of domestic connects or International flights. Earliest arrival SAN-PHL is 1635 with change of planes in PHX.
Currently 0 N/S SAN-PIT and 2 N/S SAN-CLT.
Never mind that SAN is premier convention destination year round and one of the top tourist destinations in the world.
I wish Doug and the boys would invest some of that 10 Billion dollars they can get to buy some real airplanes for USAirways and provide a consistent, reliable schedule (does WN come to mind?) to the business and leisure traveler alike. Planes that will bring both the customers and their luggage to a destination simultaneously, not delivered in a truck days later.
As you say though, apparently even though the flights from SAN have historically high load factors, they must be unprofitable or they would still exist right?