It's not getting any friendlier for passengers. My brother is flying HSV to SEA in late June. Here's what happened to him; I quote his email to me
This is all on United Airlines:
Originally, I was scheduled to fly HSV to ORD to SEA on 6/26.
United cancelled flights and rerouted me HSV to IAH to DEN to SEA. Hopefully this will hold up.
If you try to book a flight for the same date (on United), these are the only routing options available:
HSV-IAH-SFO-DEN-SEA
HSV-IAH-TUS-DEN-SEA
HSV-IAH-SAN-DEN-SEA
HSV-IAH-SNA-DEN-SEA
and so on. Basically, they're trying to get to the DEN-SEA flight any which way that they can. It looks like all of the nonstop flights from Houston and Chicago to Seattle are either too early in the morning or have been taken off the schedule. Pricewise, it has gotten really costly, too. To fly on those dates (6/26-7/14) on United now is around $1000.00 for economy seats.
Of course, there are other options available with other airlines but I had a credit with United that I wanted to use.