US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - MetroJet to Abandon RDU

There was a story in the 3/21/00 edition of the Raleigh-Durham newspaper that U.S. Airways MetroJet will cease operations at RDU in June. Any word from US?

I've heard the same, apparently they need to put the planes on BOS-Florida routes. It's also probably because competing against Southwest lowered margins too much.

The RDU MetroJet change means the loss of 4 or 5 flights RDU-IAD and 1 RDU-BOS. UAL covers the RDU-IAD with twice that frequency and Midway has RDU-BOS well covered. Southwest had less effect on MJ since the only near competing route is Southwest's RDU-BWI. Since gates at RDU are in high demand there will be other flights added to fill that empty jetway.

Metro Jet left Buffalo about a year ago. They had 2 non-stops daily to Orlando. My source tells me that the loads were pretty good except that the airline could put the planes on flights that would bring in larger profits from other cities.