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Cosakita18 said:
Meanwhile 77 miles away... United announced today that they're joining Delta in pulling out of MHT. Ending MHT-EWR/IAD by May. This leaves AA as the only legacy carrier in Manchester.
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United website still shows just IAD in the summer, where did you see the announcement?
 
PWMFlyer said:
United website still shows just IAD in the summer, where did you see the announcement?
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Last night United switched MHT-EWR to MHT-IAD for March and after May 21st flights weren’t showing up so it was presumed they’d be leaving. But now flights are loaded past May
 
I Stand corrected. It looks like 2-3x daily to IAD starting 5/21.

Interestingly, this leaves MHT with no service to New York City.
 
Braniff Airlines... Back when the flight attendants were more fun and everyone got a proper meal.

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It's a staged picture from a campaign. But I think my implied point is that the industry is so focused on making money now that they have essentially ruined the experience for everyone but the passengers in First Class.
 
I think it's also that, when deregulation made the industry more competitive, competing on price became the norm, which democratized air travel but the reduced income per seat had to be balanced somewhere. in fact, I just looked on WP, and Braniff itself ceased flight operations in 1982, unwilling to compete in the new environment.
 
In the regulated world, carriers didn’t have a ULCC eating their lunch by making the customers hypersensitive to price. Conversely, large swathes of the public could not afford to fly for anything other than a special occasion.
 
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