us airways stop service in wichita Airport

U.S. Airways no longer fly out of Wichita Airport,US Airways announced that it is making the following changes to facilitate the realignment strategy: reducing Las Vegas (LAS) flights from 64 to 36 daily departures by February 2010 as a result of high fuel prices and continued weak demand associated with the Las Vegas market; closing stations in Colorado Springs (COS) and Wichita (ICT) and moving that flying to more profitable routes across its three hubs; redeploying the airline`s 15 E-190 aircraft on routes between Boston (BOS) and Philadelphia and on the Boston-LaGuardia (LGA) leg of the US Airways Shuttle
Spokeswoman Valerie Wunder says “sustained unprofitability” is the reason.
“Wichita has been unprofitable for a number of years for U.S. Airways,” she says.
U.S. Airways has been in and out of the Wichita market for more than two decades.
“We were really surprised to see their announcement because their loads have been full,” says Valerie Wise, Wichita Airport Authority air service and business development manager.
The airline offers two flights a day to Phoenix. Mesa Airlines handles the operation for U.S. Airways. “Well, it’s a loss of a . . . nonstop destination — a very popular destination,” Wise says. There are no other nonstop flights to Phoenix from Wichita. Wunder isn’t sure when Wichita became unprofitable for the company or if it was ever profitable. “I don’t have how far back it’s been, but it’s been fairly consistent recently,” Wunder says. The airline isn’t announcing any other canceled markets at this time. Wunder won’t say if the airline will reconsider Wichita at some point. “I really don’t want to speculate on that.”