<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by hscottm:
The mention of little airports (eg BDL, above) makes me wonder what the government would do when a major closed down, denying air service to those towns.
I dont recall offhand how many of the small northeast/midwest towns are served ONLY by US. Anyone remember?
If Athens, GA was able to petition to keep service even though US wanted to cut it, what would they do if 30 of them all lost service overnight?</font>
Many of the smaller airports are not really serviced by US Airways, rather by one of their contract express carriers (ie Mesa). If US goes Ch.7, some of those express carriers would probably just sign a codeshare agreement with another airline and start feeding their hubs. It wouldn't be overnight, but they would probably get service restored quickly.