For travelers, getting to some cities could get tougher.
Under its revised order, the Department of Transportation is stipulating thatthat had offered a flight or more a day at least five days a week to a destination be required to now provide at least one flight a day, five days per week. For service to airports that had been less than five days a week, the carrier would need fly there only one day a week.
Spirit and JetBlue were among a variety of carriers, from majors like American and Delta to no-frills discounters that applied for the exemptions.The airlines in question want service exemptions because planes are flying with so few passengers amid the crisis. The list of destinations that airlines want to drop runs the gamut from big cities to small, though it's the small ones, especially in remote communities, that could see the biggest impact.
Based on the pandemic and actions taken to limit the spread of the coronavirus,"coupled with the resulting economic crisis, Sun Country’s flights to the destinations covered by this exemption request have forecast extremely low load factors for the coming months, with most in the single digits or low teens," the airline said in the filing Tuesday.
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