I'm sure it sucks to have to go through the hassle and potential additional cost of rebooking. Any time a market is dropped there are unhappy customers left in the wake.

I do find this to be a very telling posting, however. Traffic in a peripheral connecting market for Midwest...like MSP-STL...which chooses Midwest because of a "too good to be true" fare, is just the type of traffic they should not be serving. This is not meant to slam you at all, MikeMpls. Seeking out low fares is a natural thing. And I'm not trying to imply that because you booked these low fares you somehow deserved this to happen to your or should have expected it. No, not at all. You did nothing wrong.

But when an airline has to fill seats by offering "too good to be true" fares to lure connecting passengers, that's a sign that they probably shouldn't be in that market. As recently as early 2007 MKE-STL was flown with 19-seat aircraft as it had been for years, and they struggled to fill seats even in the brief period of 32-seat FRJ service. Now with 50-seat CRJ's it was simply too much capacity for the market. Hence the really low MSP-STL fare. And now, STL (along with a very similar Louisville) are on the block.