a guy I work with was over the moon when I told him of the Charlotte service as his family live there and saves
having to go through that awful JFK
Everyone has "some guy I know" who uses a flight 'cos it's near his house. It is not business practice to undertake route planning on that metric however. Though it's always good for the consumer to have more options, I agree.
If this is true for MAN too, I would be astounded and very worried.
The Continental/United merger has been a rougher ride than Delta / NWA and American / US thus far. The promised savings and synergies have not arrived in sufficient numbers, what's happening now is a battle to fix it.
Not sure Ive heard of a US carrier suspend services for just 9 weeks before ?
NWA used to do it out of PIK and SNN in the deep, dark winter only, about 8-10 weeks some years.