Midwest Airlines cuts flights from Milwaukee to Fort Myers and Fort Lauderdale

July 21st, 2008 at 05:18pm Thomas V. Bona

As Cranky Flier alerted me, Midwest Airlines is cutting service from Milwaukee to various places. The most interesting ones to me are the cuts to its south Florida service.

It’s no secret that residents of this region are clamoring for flights from Rockford to Fort Myers. Who knows if and when it will happen, but any time the Chicagoland area loses flights there, it slightly opens the door for us.

As far as I can tell, here’s what remains in terms of direct flights to Fort Myers:

• American, daily flights from O’Hare
• United, daily flights from O’Hare
• Spirit, daily flights from O’Hare
• USA 3000, multiple times a week from O’Hare, depending on the time of year (their online schedule is very confusing)
• Southwest, 12 flights a week from Midway.
• AirTran, apparently seasonal service from Milwaukee and Midway, but doesn’t seem to be available now.

It’s a shame, Midwest is one of my favorite airlines, and I’ve only gotten to fly them once. Looks like that might be it…

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