Profile: Us Airways

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Profile: US Airways

ARLINGTON (theHub.com) - US Airways is now the largest Northeast carrier and the second largest carrier east of the Mississippi River. This means that we are the top or second carrier in 70 percent of the cities we serve. According to third quarter 2004 data compiled by Eclat Consulting for Aviation Daily, almost half of our resources are centered in the Northeast, and over a third are located in the Southeast. In a separate study by Eclat Consulting, US Airways maintains more than 17 percent of the market share for the Northeast, with Delta in second place with just over 16 percent.

We also have 7.7 percent of our domestic service in the east north central region, which includes Illinois and Ohio, and 7.1 percent along the West Coast. 2.8 percent is positioned in the south central U.S., including Texas and Louisiana, and 0.1 percent is situated in the west north central region, which includes Colorado.

The Daily pointed out Orlando-Philadelphia as the busiest city-pair market in the US Airways system, with 754 daily passengers. The next six busiest routes are: Boston-Philadelphia with 624 daily passengers; New York-Washington with 612 daily passengers; Boston-New York with 562 daily passengers; Boston-Washington with 535 daily passengers; Las Vegas-Philadelphia with 480 daily passengers; and New York/Newark-Charlotte with 477 daily passengers.

US Airways carried 50.8 percent of all Orlando-Philadelphia passengers, 64.8 percent of all Boston-Philadelphia passengers and 23.1 percent of all New York-Washington passengers. Additionally, Philadelphia has the most US Airways origination and destination (O&D) passengers, with close to 9,000 each day.

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New York - Washington:
Demand: 612 daily passengers
Capacity: 1,920 daily seats (16 depts on 120 seat A319's, but weekend downgrades/no-ops)

New York - Boston:
Demand: 562 daily passengers
Capacity: 1,920 daily seats (16 depts on 120 seat A319's, but weekend downgrades/no-ops)

Since these markets are geared towards local passengers (i.e. not making a connection at LGA/BOS/DCA after their first flight), it would appear to me like supply and demand are out of whack here. Significantly.
 
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