"That means they will probably eliminate service in nonhub cities.
"If you eliminate service charges and hidden fees, you eliminate most of the problems and complaints.
To save money, the airlines either eliminated service or significantly cut back on routes.
But most are simply reducing the number of flights on existing routes rather than eliminating service.
His airline, as well as United, Continental, and US Airways have announced plans to ground planes, reduce flights and eliminate service.
Ameritrade, based in Omaha, said last week that it would eliminate service fees for clients who trade an average of five times a month in a three-month period.
Cuts are expected to spread after Labor Day, as airlines speed up retirement of inefficient planes, cut flights and eliminate service to some cities altogether.
The union most likely would fight that change because it would eliminate service time for those players parked on the disabled list.
The move will eliminate service to 16 small cities in the 10 remaining states where Air Midwest, which had already cut flights, still operated.
United did not say which American cities would be affected by its schedule cuts, but said it would reduce, but not eliminate, service to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Paris, Brussels and Taipei, Taiwan.
