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Nonstop to Fort Myers, Fla., also will be halted from Akron-Canton
By Marilyn Miller
Beacon Journal business writer
Published on Saturday, Feb 16, 2008
AirTran will once again suspend its nonstop flights from the Akron-Canton Airport to Las Vegas.
The seasonal Las Vegas flights will be discontinued on April 8 but will resume on Aug. 19.
Another seasonal nonstop flight AirTran offers to Fort Myers, Fla., will also be suspended on April 8. No date has been set for that service to resume.
The high cost of jet fuel was blamed for the cuts.
''With fuel costs at such high and record levels, we do a lot of seasonal flying to heavily tourist destinations like Florida and Las Vegas, because the yield is just not strong enough to offset the fuel costs year-round. But in peak times the route is profitable,'' said AirTran spokeswoman Judy Graham-Weaver. ''The seasonal reduction typically happens in routes like Las Vegas and Florida . . . some of the more seasonal routes, which are used more in the winter.''
The airline based all the Las Vegas flights on demand for three- to four-day trips when the service was picked up on Aug. 15, 2007.
When the airline first offered the nonstop service in 2005, flights were scheduled five times a week. After five months, the flights were reduced to twice a week and eventually dropped.
Besides Akron-Canton, AirTran also is suspending nonstop flights to Las Vegas from Dayton; Flint, Mich.; Rochester, N.Y.; Milwaukee; Bloomington, Ind., and Moline, Ill.
Kristie Van Auken, director of marketing and communications at the Akron-Canton Airport, said the good news is that passengers can still find a way to Las Vegas.
They can take AirTran to Atlanta before taking a second plane to Las Vegas or they can fly Frontier Airlines, which has a stop in Denver before a connecting flight to Las Vegas.
Marilyn Miller can be reached at 330-996-3098 or 800-777-7232 or mmiller@thebeaconjournal.com.
AirTran will once again suspend its nonstop flights from the Akron-Canton Airport to Las Vegas.
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