US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - US Airways Express Announces Nonstop Summer Service Between DCA and Hilton Head

http://www.usairways.com/about/press/nw_05_0210.htm

US AIRWAYS EXPRESS ANNOUNCES NONSTOP SUMMER SERVICE BETWEEN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND HILTON HEAD

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 10, 2005 -- US Airways Express announced today its expanded summer schedule to Hilton Head, S.C., with weekend nonstop roundtrip flights from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, beginning April 3, 2005.

The flight will depart Washington at 8:25 a.m., and will arrive in Hilton Head at 10:50 a.m. The return flight will depart Hilton Head at 11:15 a.m., and will arrive in Washington at 1:25 p.m.

These additional seasonal flights will be operated using 37-seat Dash-8 turboprop aircraft and will continue through Labor Day. US Airways Express currently operates seven daily nonstop roundtrip flights to Hilton Head from Charlotte, N.C., and will increase to nine daily nonstop roundtrip flights on March 5, 2005.

US Airways is the largest carrier at Reagan National Airport, operating 192 daily departures to 48 nonstop destinations.

US Airways is the nation’s seventh-largest airline, serving nearly 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. US Airways, US Airways Shuttle and the US Airways Express partner carriers operate over 3,450 flights per day. For more information on US Airways flight schedules and fares, visit US Airways online at usairways.com, or call US Airways Reservations at 1-800-428-4322.

It appears that US will also be running 2xERJ from DCA to nearby Savannah on Saturdays only, starting April 9.

The SAV/HHH area is a popular vacation/second home destination for DC-area residents, so it's nice to see the new nonstops.

It's nice to see but I think US also needs to fill in a few gaps in the western US so they can get connecting traffic into these east coast destinations with increased service. Let UA codeshare do the small stuff, but places like PDX, AUS, SAT and even ABQ and SLC and kind of gaping holes for the airline.

Glad to see that the Dash 8s are going somewhere other than the desert. Quite possibly my favorite of the fleet.

It's nice to see but I think US also needs to fill in a few gaps in the western US so they can get connecting traffic into these east coast destinations with increased service. Let UA codeshare do the small stuff, but places like PDX, AUS, SAT and even ABQ and SLC and kind of gaping holes for the airline.
Agreed...but do you mean flying expressjets from PDX to PHL/CLT? That's very very far (I don't think the range is there) and not sure if there's enough demand for mainline. Maybe a 737? Will people take two connections (UA in ORD/DEN/SFO then US in PHL/CLT/DCA)?
just curious

Agreed...but do you mean flying expressjets from PDX to PHL/CLT? That's very very far (I don't think the range is there) and not sure if there's enough demand for mainline. Maybe a 737? Will people take two connections (UA in ORD/DEN/SFO then US in PHL/CLT/DCA)?
just curious

I think a couple A319 flights from PDX to CLT or PHL would be demanded. PDX is a city of well over 2 million people with very limited connections to the east coast. Also, PDX is less price competitive than some of the other west coast airports with the brutal competition which has lowered PHL-LAX to $178 r/t. A long range advanced purchase to PDX last summer was $363 as I remember.

Personally, I think if they were to ever open a new station in the west again, it ought to be PDX. That said, they might be content to funnel that traffic to UA.

I'd also like to see SJC, SLC and RNO, but these are, for the moment, probably better delegated to UA.

From what I remember in the Attaché magazine (before 9-11) I remember seeing PDX, AUS and San Antonio on the US Airways route map for future expansion. But right after 9-11 US Airways abandoned the cities.

It might happen in the future.

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