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Recent events underscore how much more turbulence lies ahead for the beleaguered carriers as well as the disgruntled traveling public. Fares will drop on some routes and rise on others. More direct flights could open up, even as layovers grow longer at airline hubs. Satellite airports (Baltimore; Long Beach, Calif.) near metropolitan areas could see more traffic while service is reduced to smaller cities like Syracuse, N.Y., and Greensboro, N.C. And forget those promises of more legroom in coach. Those days are over...
Discounters and majors alike will provide more direct flights between popular destinations, but the hub system will continue to play a major role because feeding passengers from smaller cities into central hubs is still the only way to move people from Sacramento, Calif., to Sarasota, Fla., or Birmingham, Ala., to Los Angeles at a reasonable price. American says the average layover will increase by 10 to 12 minutes, but many travelers could spend an extra 30 minutes to two hours sitting in the airport bar or browsing the newsstand, especially as airlines cut back the number of connecting flights...
Passengers stranded on less popular routes not served by discounters will probably have their wallets hit especially hard. But as low-cost airlines like Southwest and JetBlue go after one another, certain direct fares should fall. Just last month JetBlue announced service from Long Beach to Oakland, Calif., starting at $19 each way, a price that Southwest matched in 48 hours...
...experience is going to depend more than ever on where the trip starts. The smaller cities that were the biggest beneficiaries of the hub system could well be among the principal losers in any industry overhaul. Cutbacks could be facing cities such as Albany, N.Y.; Fargo, N.D.; and Fresno, Calif. US Airways has said it will drop flights to Saginaw, Mich. Smaller, regional jets may help plug some of the gaps, but the economics of such planes require more business passengers and fewer tourists...
Sequoia Way is easy for travelers to overlook. Nestled in the middle-class neighborhood of Village Park on the south side of Sacramento, Calif., it is an unremarkable stretch of single-story frame houses. But if you stroll a bit along the winding road and visit Sequoia Way's residents, you will quickly realize there's something extraordinary about this street...