XPost: rec.travel.air, alt.travel   
   From: 225stellarNO@SPAMcomcast.net   
      
   "None"  wrote in   
   news:I%utb.1948$n56.1788@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:   
      
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   > "SP Cook"  wrote in message   
   > news:da11e11e.0311151110.56514e36@posting.google.com...   
   >> "None"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> > Arlington-based US Airways has been denied permission to extend its   
   > lease at   
   >> > Pittsburgh International Airport for another year, after the two   
   >> > sides couldn't reach an agreement on cutting debt. The carrier's   
   >> > lease ends in January.   
   >> >   
   >> Pittsburgh (note the h) needs to call US Scare's bluff.  Either it   
   >> will continue to keep it as a hub and pay the costs it agreed to, or   
   >> it will leave and free up the market for other carriers.   
   >   
   > I agree.  Pittsburgh (note the h as well) should just tell USAirways   
   > to buzz off, there are so many other major carriers that are chomping   
   > at the bit to make Pitt into a hub!   
   >   
   > Pitt is a shithole and it's over priced.  I hope USAirways kicks their   
   > butt! In the alternative, if USAirways pulls out of Pitt, that airport   
   > will go straight down the toilet because no one else wants to come in   
   > and fill that size of a void, not even southwest, who's pittance of a   
   > 10 flights a day "possibility" doesn't hold a candle to the more than   
   > 100 that USAirways now does.  USAirways just needs to pack up and set   
   > up shop somewhere else where the city government is more reasonable.   
   >   
   Your point was A I agree or B Pittsburgh should placate US Airways?   
      
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