Effective 6/1, the Skywest FL* operation will cut back to three aircraft.

CAK stays at 3x (was already planned to go to go back to 3x 5/26)
DSM remains at 2x
PIT drops from 3x to 2x
IND drops from 3x to 2x
OMA drops from 3x to 2x
STL drops from 3x (Mondays 4x) to 2x

In a nutshell:

CAK has a solid 3x/day schedule

STL and PIT each have an early morning and an evening MKE-xxx-MKE round trip, which works for business travel.

IND is largely wrecked as a business market:
MKE-IND departures are at 10:35am and 9:08pm, IND-MKE departures are at 6:09am and 1:08pm

DSM no longer has the overnight aircraft, so the two flights are mid-day (arriving DSM 11:42am and 4:18pm, heading back east at 12:07pm and 4:43pm)

OMA retains the overnight aircraft eastbound at 5:41am and arriving back into OMA at 10:52pm, plus the mid-afternoon flight remains.


Interesting that CAK, which was cut back last year from 3x to 2x, now will be the only market at 3x. Conversely STL seemed to be the strongest in 2010 but is being cut back to 2x.

This cutback should help Frontier with loads and fare levels in several regional markets, but some of these markets are already packed on peak days. I hope they bring in some added capacity, especially to PIT, IND, DSM and STL.