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Originally Posted by brianinok
Frankly, I am getting a little irritated at the airlines and/or airport management. Year over year OKC is STILL showing gains in passenger traffic, yet the airlines continue to cut back. I hope that airport management is not sitting back and letting it happen. Are they showing the airlines how good things are in OKC? Maybe the airlines are just assuming things are bad here like the rest of the country?
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This has nothing to do with the airport, all it can do for now is try as best as it can to keep the service it has right now. If you've seen the news, you'll know that even with the falling price of crude oil, jet fuel's price isn't falling as much, and so the airlines are still going to cut back whereever they see unprofitable service.
Airports all over the U.S. are seeing cut backs/eliminations, it's not just OKC. Heck, LAX is getting whacked right now, DL and UA are both eliminating around 20-25% of their daily schedule at LAX, and international carriers are also either cutting back sharply or eliminating service altogether. For LAX, the cuts are significant.
San Jose Airport has lost all but one of its transnational flights. That's gotta be bad especially for Silicon Valley business travelers. Overall, OKC's in pretty good shape for now.
I suspect that if crude oil prices continue to fall though, then slowly you'll see jet fuel's price start falling more as well, and airlines may start adding flights back.