More airline cutbacks downstate

December 19th, 2007 at 06:45am Thomas V. Bona

Looks like Peoria is temporarily losing some Delta flights to Atlanta because of high fuel prices.

This comes not long after Allegiant Air said it was pulling Las Vegas service from several Illinois markets for the same reason.

The bright side for Peoria is it was spared the Allegiant cuts and still faces a record year for passenger service. Rockford also was spared Allegiant’s cutbacks.

RFD Executive Director Bob O’Brien keeps saying that the airport’s growth in spite of the sluggish industry says good things about what they’re doing. At the same time, you have to wonder if and when fuel prices will ever slow down RFD’s growth too.

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