No more worry here....
 

I'll have a nice cup 'o coffee and enjoy my day.

CLE has some of the least expensive gas prices in the country right now - consider yourself fortunate. I paid $2.99/gallon there several weeks ago. If you shop at Giant Eagle, you can accrue points that reduce the price charged at their fuel station by something like $.10/gallon for every $100 or something that you spend.

As to your question, in my opinion, when CO reduces service at CLE after the merger with UA, the LAS flights will be the last to go. Probably all the west coast flights will remain, in fact.

How is CLE-TUL doing? I did it twice recently, and both flights were around 10-15 pax. And how about GSO? I'll be trying that one in a couple of weeks.

i dunno about some low gas prices. the prices between CLE and CMH are usually pretty close (+/- 15 cents) and our prices in CMH (with a lower standard of living) are around 3.459 a gallon. on that note, i'm gonna open a store and sell everything on the tenth of a cent price level

Gas costs...
 

Gas in Mentor Ohio, near to where I reside was $3.45 this morning. Yikes!

$3.45? Go to Heisley Walmart or Speedway.

Id really be interested in knowing how GSO is doing too...anecdotal evidence from the web site shows that the flights are 50% full (not including pax without seat assignments or walk-up fares).

Considering the route started just a month ago, I hope loads improve substantially. All of those 200-300 CMH pax per day from Skybus' two daily nonstops (and yes those flights were typically 80% full) have obviously retreated from CO's high rates.

I am on CLE-LAS tomm and it's a full house (738), the return flight home is a packed 753 on Sunday. I think the LAS flights will be here to stay!

Ultimately what matters on these flights is what kind of fares CO is getting. They could fly a full plane theorectically lose money if the fares are too low and LAS is highly competitive market (not sure how so from CLE).

I do think going forward that oil pirces will play a role in how service gets rolled out. With fuel being suhc a high % now there is probably less tolerance for waiting out investments in a new station to see if there will be a return.

I beleive some new service is subsidized by the local community. Don't know if that was the case in Kalamazoo. If it was, I think they would have a hard time canceling or their would have been some discussion of the terms of an agreement that allowed CO to cancel.

I'm pretty sure it's competitive for pretty much every originating city...

Lots of good discussion here... what I meant by "already" in the OP is that, for whatever reason, CO has cut flights from CLE before they even started them... which, as some of you have suggested, may just be a fluke... but no airline enters a market without marketing data to support the demand (especially so now in this tough economic climate).

So, my question for the group was whether this route was just an oddity (underperforming sales despite projected demand being there) or if, perhaps, it's an early symptom of CO's attempt to build-up CO's connecting traffic not going as planned?

Plus, with fuel prices (austensibly at least) forcing airlines to cut capacity, is there less urgency for CO to build-up CLE... especially as a reliever to EWR for connecting pax?

I suspect it has a bit to do with general capacity cuts that they are making. In addition, they probably figured if it was a 'marginal' route that it wasn't worth the startup cost.