Usexp/piedmont Increases Summer Service To Mvy/ack

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US AIRWAYS EXPRESS ANNOUNCES INCREASED SUMMER SERVICE TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET

ARLINGTON, Va., March 9, 2004 -- US Airways Express announced today its expanded summer schedule of 80 additional weekly roundtrip flights to both Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass., beginning June 24, 2004.

US Airways Express will operate daily nonstop roundtrip service to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, with one additional roundtrip flight to Nantucket on Saturdays.

From New York (LaGuardia), US Airways Express will operate four daily roundtrip flights to both Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. US Airways Express will also offer daily Philadelphia-Nantucket service – twice daily on Saturday – and Saturday nonstop service between Philadelphia and Martha’s Vineyard.

These additional seasonal flights will be operated by US Airways Express carrier Piedmont Airlines and will continue through Sept. 13, 2004. US Airways Express carrier Colgan Air operates year-round nonstop service to Nantucket from Hyannis, Mass., and New York-LaGuardia Airport.

US Airways is the nation’s seventh-largest airline, serving nearly 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. US Airways, US Airways Shuttle and the US Airways Express partner carriers operate over 3,300 flights per day. For more information on US Airways flight schedules and fares, contact US Airways online at usairways.com, or call US Airways Reservations at 1-800-428-4322.

Reporters needing additional information should contact US Airways Corporate Affairs at (703) 872-5100.

 

[ITRADE]

IIRC, a lot of this service in past years was operated by Air Midwest and/or Colgan B-1900s. Since Air Midwest seems absolutely bent upon getting rid of their B-1900s and its unlikely that Colgan will be able to fill the entire gap, you're going to see some interesting scenarios on operations to small places like ACK, MVY, BFL, DUJ, and the like.

There is quite a difference in seating capacities in economics when you're having to jump from a 19-seat B-1900 to a larger Dash-8 - almost a 100% increase in available seats.

This is where I would have thought that it would have been advantageous for a carrier like colgan to take over the operations of the DO-328s. While bigger than the B-1900s, they certainly were about 15 - 20 percent smaller than the Dash-8s and had the added benefit of dual-use rolls (i.e. the ability to do short hops, and long range turboprop flying).

Perhaps the mid-point would have been to utilize either the SF-340s from Shuttle America, or perhaps increase some network flying from TransStates with their J-41s. Given that there seems to be a surplus of J-41s around, TSA could easily pick up additional flying.

 

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I flew LGA-MVY on Colgan and it was a Saab 340

 

[ITRADE]

BTW, is it possible for the admins to change their text coding to allow for the usage of caps in more than two contiguously connected lettters - Mvy just does not look right. Nor does Us Airways.