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But as bad as things are at major airports, for small-market cities, which may have a limited number of carriers, the effect has been amplified.

On April 5, 21 of 27 flights scheduled to depart from the Charlottesville, Va., airport were canceled, according to Flightradar24, a global flight tracking service and app. Alaska and United, which began commercial flights to California, Denver and Las Vegas from Paine Field Airport north of Seattle in March 2019, had 38 departures scheduled for March 8 of this year. Scheduled departures fell to 24 by April 5, 13 of which were canceled.

Cities that may have only recently gained nonstop flights are losing them, and passengers hoping to travel from those cities may have to fly circuitous routes that go through an airline’s hubs.

United changed about 130 nonstop flights to connecting flights through one or even two of its hubs. Appleton, Wis., a small city in the northeast part of the state, got its first nonstop flights to Denver in June 2018. Now, fliers are being offered a route that goes from Denver south to Atlanta, back north to Chicago, and then on to Appleton.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus.html