Originally Posted by
knope2001
Nothing more than anecdotal info since Akron doesn't publish monthly stats by airline. PIT, IND, DSM and OMA all do, and that helps us get a pretty good idea before T100 stats come out.
The decision to pull the mid-day MKE-CAK flight for a few months suggests that it's been lighter than they'd hoped, although that mid-day flight is coming back for the summer. Instead the mid-day DSM flight is being pulled.
For what it's worth, the director of the Akron airport has been quoted in several news stories stating that CAK-MKE has gotten off to a very slow start and flights have been pretty empty. This probably helps explain why AirTran has cut the mid-day flight until peak summer travel begins.
Akron has been pushing the CAK-MKE-XXX routings pretty hard.