Air service cutbacks hit hardest where recession did

Source: Jad Mouawad, The New York Times

The airlines’ deep cutbacks in flights over the last three years have fallen unevenly across the country, largely sparing the nation’s biggest airports but hitting midsize airports the hardest. In the last five years, a review of government statistics shows, air service most often dropped at midsize airports and cities where jobs disappeared or housing prices collapsed. Las Vegas, Phoenix and Detroit, for instance, all lost flights in the 12 months that ended in March.

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