ABE-PIT no more
Apr 12, 2007, 4:08 pm
#16
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Pittsburgh
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I just went into my corporate travel to book PIT-ABE for next month. I noticed all the non-stops are gone. So I came over here to see if anyone knows anything and see this thread! I hate, hate, hate going through PHL. I really don't want to drive from EWR. 
Apr 12, 2007, 4:24 pm
#17
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Athens, WV, USA; a US cockroach long before it was in FFOCUS; now a lowly US5 for only the 2nd time in 20 years.
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IIRC, PKB, CLB and MGW are the EAS service to CLE that some CO express operator had picked up and then couldn't hold onto. Colgan got it, and is using Saab 340s instead of B1900s.
Apr 12, 2007, 4:36 pm
#18
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 965
Well, it doesn't look like I'm going to have a choice. PIT-PHL-ABE is $444, PIT-EWR is $168. Looks like I'm driving from EWR.
Apr 14, 2007, 9:08 am
#19
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The website and US reservations currently show ABE-PIT on the schedule again as of 9/1 operated by Colgan.
Res just has information that it is being discontinued but no information if it is actually being resumed. The agent I spoke with did say it is possible that they have just not loaded that change into the schedule yet that far in advance or they are keeping them in the schedule until they find another operator for those flights.
You would think that if they are dropping service between cities they would pull all of the flights in the schedule not just those that are four months in advance.
Res just has information that it is being discontinued but no information if it is actually being resumed. The agent I spoke with did say it is possible that they have just not loaded that change into the schedule yet that far in advance or they are keeping them in the schedule until they find another operator for those flights.
You would think that if they are dropping service between cities they would pull all of the flights in the schedule not just those that are four months in advance.
Apr 14, 2007, 12:01 pm
#20
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Interestingly, US added a 9:35AM flight from AVP-PIT (on a lovely DASH), but apparently it's only on the schedule from the beginning of May until the beginning of June. I wonder if US is testing the waters on ABE'ers driving the hour to AVP on the PA turnpike to fly a DASH to PIT, vs. dealing with PHL.
Apr 14, 2007, 9:05 pm
#21
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Manchester, NH
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This is interesting. I used to fly that route from time to time when I lived in Western NJ.
Slightly off topic, but I do know that the once discontinued MHT-PIT service (been gone for over a year) is re-appearing in June '07 on Trans-State Airlines (at least according to www.flymanchester.com). I see 1 non-stop in the "timetable" functionality, but can't access that flight in the booking engine....
Slightly off topic, but I do know that the once discontinued MHT-PIT service (been gone for over a year) is re-appearing in June '07 on Trans-State Airlines (at least according to www.flymanchester.com). I see 1 non-stop in the "timetable" functionality, but can't access that flight in the booking engine....