ExpressJet cuts, chapter and verse

Fuel prices and load factors are forcing ExpressJet to jettison, at least for a while, a number of nonstop routes. The all-regional jet airline is shedding 30 percent of its seats as of August 23. There’s a chance some routes might re-emerge on November 15 however.

Flyers will have to adjust because there was no nonstop competition on virtually all of these routes. That has been a key component of ExpressJet’s business plan: fly routes the other airlines do not. ExpressJet spokeswoman Kristy Nicholas tells Cheapflights that even though nonstops are going away, flyers will still be able to make one-stop connections on the carrier to a number of cities in its route network.

Here’s a rundown of the routes ExpressJet is canceling on August 23, at the end of the busy summer season:

- Albuquerque (ABQ) to Oklahoma City (OKC)

- Albuquerque to Tulsa (TUL)

- Austin (AUS) to Tucson (TUS)

- Bakersfield (BFL) to Sacramento (SMF)

- Jacksonville (JAX) to Austin

- Jacksonville to Kansas City (MCI)

- Omaha (OMA) to Tucson

- Ontario (ONT) to Austin

- Ontario to Oklahoma City

- Ontario to Omaha

- Ontario to Tulsa

- Reno (RNO) to Spokane (GEG)

- Reno to Tucson

- San Diego (SAN) to Bakersfield

- San Diego to Oklahoma City

- San Diego to Omaha

- San Antonio (SAT) to Tulsa

- Sacramento to Oklahoma City

- Sacramento to San Antonio

- Sacramento to Tulsa

© Cheapflights Ltd Jerry Chandler

Comments

[Mary Ann]

I hope that you will reconsider cancelling the Omaha - San Diego nonstop flight. It is so perfect, and I was so happy to finally have that flight in place. I sure don't like the thought of it being discontinued. Save it, please!

[Bill Bentley]

Message for ExpressJet:

Please try to stay in Tulsa, OK. We love the non-stop flights to Sacramento, CA. ExpressJet is great. Thank you. Hope you reconsider.