It’s going to be harder to get a flight out of Williamsport.
That’s because the city was one of 15 in the U.S. that American Airlines announced this week that it was suspending service.
The suspensions are set to coincide with the end of federal assistance through the CARES Act on October 7, according to Business Insider.
The other cities that need to be cut on the rotation are Del Rio, Texas; Dubuque, Iowa; Florence, South Carolina; Greenvile, North Carolina; Huntington, West Virginia; Joplin, Missouri; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Lake Charles, Louisiana; New Haven, Connecticut; Roswell, New Mexico; Sioux City, Iowa; Springfield, Illinois and Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The CARES law provided billions of dollars to airlines, but also required Americans to “maintain service in their existing route network.”
Business Insider reported that American said the route suspensions are meant to run through Nov. 3 “with the possibility of an expansion or cut to more cities if demand does not bounce back.”
It called the move “another sign of a slow recovery for the aviation industry.”
The American rival, Delta, cut its rotation in June, eliminating service from 11 cities.
That included cutting his routes from Erie to Detroit and from Scranton to Atlanta and Detroit. According to Business Insider, Delta “did not say when, if ever, it would return to those markets.”
The report said “more travelers” took to the skies in the summer, but “the period from Labor Day to Thanksgiving typically sees a drop-off in holiday travel that could hinder the sector’s recovery time, especially if business travel does not come back. “
