![]() The airport averaged 148 departures per day across all airlines during the month.”Īmerican spokesman Matt Miller tells the Gazette “Pittsburgh remains an important market for American,” pointing out the carrier plans to add nonstop service to Cancun, Mexico.īut, at least for March, the title for Pittsburgh's busiest airline has shifted to a new company for the first time in decades. Southwest also has grown to become Pittsburgh’s top carrier in terms of nonstop destinations (15), though the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review writes American “topped all other airlines in average departures per day in March - 44 - compared to second-place Southwest's 27 …. “We thank our customers and employees for making us Pittsburgh’s main choice when it comes to air travel and connecting them to what’s important in their lives.” It’s a designation that we take seriously,” Southwest says in a statement to the Post-Gazette. “We are very proud to be Pittsburgh’s largest carrier. That will jump to 16 in August with the start of service to Los Angeles.” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes “Southwest has taken full advantage, growing from 10 flights a day reaching four destinations in 2005 to 27 flights going to 15 destinations today. The flight count for US Airways - and now American - has continued to dwindle since.įaced with rapid decline of its once-formidable hub, Pittsburgh worked to reinvent itself as an airport focusing on local demand - a dramatic shift from its days as a major connecting hub. But in 2004, US Airways downgraded Pittsburgh from hub to focus city amid rapidly changing industry dynamics.ĪRCHIVES: Dismantling Pittsburgh: Death of an airline hub (October 2007)ĪRCHIVES: US Airways continues Pittsburgh retreat (October 2007)Īnd by January 2008 US Airways – which merged with America West in 2005 – was down to just 68 daily flights at Pittsburgh and its number of employees in the city had fallen to about 1,800, according to The Associated Press. Southwest’s aggressive schedule and underinvestment have also. In 2001, US Airways alone operated more than 500 daily flights from Pittsburgh and employed about 11,000 there. The storm slammed two of its biggest hubs Chicago and Denver at a time when winter ailments were stretching staff rosters. From the 1990s into the early 2000s, Pittsburgh had become one of the USA’s busiest airports – almost exclusively on the strength of the hub that US Airways operated at the airport. LOCAL REPORT: There’s a new top bird at Pittsburgh International (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)ĭespite the change, airport officials cautioned Pittsburgh media that American still leads in overall traffic for the year to date and that it’s possible American will again finish the year as city's busiest airline.īut Southwest’s climb to the top – even if it lasts just for March – represents a sea-change for Pittsburgh International. That was enough to move past American’s count of 195,207 (28.6%) ![]() ![]() Southwest carried 207,532 passengers (30.4% of the total) at Pittsburgh during the month, the latest for which data is available. Which airline is the busiest in Pittsburgh?įor more than three decades, the answer to that question has been US Air, US Airways or - since late 2015 - American Airlines, which merged with US Airways last year.īut when the airport’s March 2016 passenger traffic numbers came out, there was a new company perched at No. ![]()
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