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Discuss “Trapped in Pittsburgh”

We hope you didn’t really enjoy having US Airways in your life.

This past week, Pittsburgh’s largest carrier announced another round of cuts to its service out of Pittsburgh. This means that, in January, the number of daily flights leaving town will drop from 108 to 68. Places you may have wanted to go and no longer can include: Nashville, Denver, Erie, Chicago, Norfolk, Louisville, and Toronto.

But really this is part of a larger trend for US Airways, which shortly before 9/11 had over 500 flights leaving Pittsburgh each day. In 2004, Pittsburgh International Airport was downgraded from a hub to a “focus city” — which in airport lingo means they don’t love us anymore — and just this past May, US Airways cut direct flights to...

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