Delta Air Lines Leaves Concourse C in Cincinnati

Saying the move is not an indication of further flights cuts at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) (Web site: www.cvgairport.com), Delta Air Lines nonetheless is packing up and moving out of Concourse C. The pullout will happen between October and January 2009. When it's finished, Delta operations will be consolidated onto Concourses A and B.

Delta says the move will benefit flyers by giving them better access to jet bridges at gates, thus helping them stay “warm and dry when arriving and departing the airport.” The airline says it has started talks with CVG officials about adding at least 11 new passenger-boarding bridges on A and B, a move that's designed ultimately to eliminate ground boarding of Delta Connection flights at the airport.

It's going to take two to three years for Delta and the airport to come up with all-covered boarding for passengers at the airport.

Not only will ground-level boarding not be missed by Delta's Cincy flyers, neither will that burdensome bus ride between Concourse B and C. It ends in January, when Delta leaves C.

Concourse C debuted in the early 1990s. When it did, it was touted as the first purely commuter terminal in the country. It was self-contained, and cutting-edge, but by the late 1990s - in many flyers' estimation - it had become cramped and crowded.

Again, insisting, “the transition…will not directly result in additional schedule changes,” Delta says its Fall 2008 schedule calls for 298 peak daily departures from Cincinnati to some 96 destinations. Included among those destinations are London Gatwick (LGW), Frankfurt (FRA), and Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG).

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