US Airways (Washington) has announced it will launchย daily, nonstop service toย Washington, D.C.’sย Reagan National Airportย when then airline launches new flights in June and July. Business, government and leisure travelers in San Diego, Augusta, Georgia, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario will receive new access to DCA. New service to San Diego will begin on June 8, while service to all other communities will begin on July 11. Currently, no carrier at Reagan National offers nonstop service to San Diego, Augusta or Fayetteville. US Airways will fill the void with nonstop access from these communities to Reagan National Airport.
US Airways will have a total of 22 new routes from Washington D.C.’s Reagan National beginning this spring and summer as a result of slot swap with Delta Air Lines.
The new flights are the final phase inย US Airways’ plan to focus on its core service areas of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C. In January, US Airways announced expanded service from Washington, D.C. to 14 destinations from Reagan National Airport.ย These flights will begin on March 25. The airline also announced nonstop flights between Reagan National and Cincinnati and Des Moines, Iowa that will start on May 2. Once the new flights begin, 99 percent of the airline’s available seat miles (ASMs) will operate to or from its core service areas andย US Airways Shuttleย that operates hourly between Washington, Boston and New York’s LaGuardia Airport. This represents a 16 percentage point change from 2006, when, following the merger of US Airways and America West Airlines, only 83 percent of the airline’s ASMs touched its core focus areas and US Airways Shuttle.
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