The Cincinnati Dealer - Delta Cuts 26% Of Flights, 1000 Jobs, Builds New Runway

Delta Cuts 26% Of Flights, 1000 Jobs, Builds New Runway

By Gerard Oh | Dealer staff writer

Wed, Oct 12, 2005

HEBRON - Despite the fact that more than 93 percent of the traffic at Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati International Airport is controlled by Delta, and despite the fact that Delta plans on cutting 26 percent of its flights and 1000 jobs at CVG by the end of the year to recoup some its $10 billion bankruptcy debts, the airport still somehow managed to build a new runway.

Airport spokesman Gene DuBois said of the new north-south runway, "Now the airplanes can land and take off uppy-downy as well as lefty-righty. This will make the airport more competitive at landing new carriers."

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