Blaming rising oil prices, US Airways announced Wednesday January 16, that they will no longer be offering up daily roundtrip flights to Phoenix from McClellan-Palomar Airport, according to a story in the North County Times. Company spokesman Morgan Durrant said they have no plans to reinstate service “In the near future.”
“It just didn’t make sense, looking at the proximity of the San Diego International Airport,” Durrant said. “We’ve got a lot of folks here who scrutinize markets and our service and aircraft allocation. … It seems to be the way it’s going to be for a while.”
We wish we could say we were going to miss US Air, but honestly, in our experience they have been the worst airline in terms of equipment failures and delays. In fact, according to a July report on twenty airlines only five were worse that US Air when it comes to being on time. Their on-time percentage was only 66.3. In their defense, Mesa Airlines, the company that ran the Carlsbad to Phoenix route ranked number five on the list.
[Link: North County Times]
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