"In certain instances, they have literally abandoned routes that they were running, and it falls to rural transit systems there to try and continue to provide service," said John McBeth, the president of the Texas Association for Community Transit.
Nursing hangovers from years of operational profligacy, they had retreated to their hubs and were abandoning routes to Eastern Europe.
In the last month, the company has said it will abandon routes to China and Canada, dismiss one-quarter of its middle and senior managers, and cut its overall work force by 5percentt.
Syrians formed the largest proportion of people using the Libya-Italy migration route in 2014 but largely abandoned the route in 2015 when it became much easier to get to Europe via Greece.
The 22-block aerial walkway on an abandoned freight route has galvanised a neighbourhood where luxury condos, galleries and boutiques have all but pushed out the industrial grime of warehouses and manufacturing plants.
Music companies have all but abandoned this route, but they did lasting damage to the reputation of their products through an escalating series of anti-copying measures that culminated with Sony-BMG intentionally shipping a "rootkit" on over six million CDs.
The team's Spanish leader endured what his director sportif, Sean Yates, claimed was his "worst ever day on a Grand Tour" on Tuesday, his lieutenant Ivan Basso had surgery on Wednesday for testicular cancer and another mainstay, Daniele Bennati, abandoned en route to Cauterets with a suspected broken leg.
The movie's abrupt transitions, characters' sudden appearances and disappearances, dialogue that picks up and drops off midstream, actions caught on the wing and abandoned en route, create a jolting sense of daily life as an effort to dance on a balance beam being shaken by beloved clowns.
This became possible because SAS had abandoned the route the previous year.
Mr. Schwartz said he thought so, noting that either way, the union can make the point that the authority should not have abandoned the routes.
