United Airlines, the world’s largest airline when measured by number of destinations served, is eliminating two more non-stop destinations from Cleveland Hopkins, Las Vegas and St. Louis, starting in early May.
The reductions will leave United airlines with just 15 non-stop destinations from Cleveland, down from 58 just two years ago, when the airline still operated a hub at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE).
United Airlines spokesman Jonathan Guerin said:
“We continually review supply and demand for service in all of our markets. We made the difficult decision to end service between Cleveland and our St. Louis and Las Vegas routes because they didn’t meet our expectations and are no longer sustainable.”
The last day for both routes will be May 4. Cleveland travelers, however, have, or will soon have, alternatives to both destinations. Frontier, Spirit and Southwest airlines all fly non-stop between Cleveland and Las Vegas.
United airlines is currently the only carrier flying from Cleveland to St. Louis, offering twice daily flights on 50-seat Embraer jets.
Southwest Airlines, however, announced in December a new daily flight to St. Louis, which begins June 5.
These most recent cuts leave United Airlines with a fraction of the service it had two years ago, when Cleveland was still one of the airline’s eight hubs. Since the airline’s downsizing announcement in February 2014, United Airlines has cut more than 40 nonstop destinations from Cleveland, including Baltimore, Atlanta, Kansas City, New Orleans, Phoenix and many others.
United Airlines spokesman Jonathan Guerin said Cleveland was not the only United Airlines market to experience cuts in the airline’s latest round of schedule adjustments.
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