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Originally Posted by skyguy414
US Airways announced they will commence nonstop service between Salt Lake and their Charlotte, NC hub with one daily flight beginning in March. This will compliment the existing flights from Salt Lake to US Airways' Phoenix hub. Charlotte is US Airways largest hub and will offer more convenient connecting opportunities to the East coast, Caribbean, and Europe.
This route used to be flown with Delta until they merged with Northwest and removed a lot of their redundant routes. I'll almost bet Delta will respond with by starting this route again.
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This is great news. Hopefully the flight will work out for everyone, SLC, CLT, and US Airways. It just seems like Delta has a strong hold on the SLC market, and with that, it makes other airlines have limited service to SLC.
I would like to see the following flights offered to SLC. I think some of them have a very good chance of happening :
Honolulu-SLC on Hawaiian Airlines (already flown by Delta)
Newark-SLC on United (already flown by Delta)
Philadelphia-SLC on US Airways (already flown by Delta)
Miami-SLC on American (not currently served)
Boston-SLC on JetBlue (currently flown by Delta)
Seattle-SLC on Alaska Airlines (currently flown by Delta; Alaska codshares with Delta on this route already-not a good chance of this ever happening
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Atlanta-SLC on Southwest (already flown by Delta with about 8 daily flights; I think this flight has a very good chance of happening )
Toronto-SLC on Air Canada (both Air Canada and Delta tried this a few years ago; I think AC would have success this time around
)
Amsterdam-SLC on either KLM or Delta (This one is VERY interesting to me, and I think it has an overall good chance of happening. KLM is a Skyteam member, so codsharing would help. I don't know if this flight would hurt the current Paris-SLC flight though. I've heard rumors and talk about Delta studying and looking to see if SLC could sustain another European flight. I think this route would be a great seasonal flight!
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San Jose, Costa Rica-SLC on Delta (I think this route could be a great seasonal route for both Delta and SLC; SLC would offer great connectivity for this flight)