CVG CEO hopes latest addition will land more American Airlines flights


The location of a new maintenance base for a regional carrier may not be the sexiest story out of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport of late, but CVG's CEO said PSA Airlines' decision will help the airport's top priority: Getting more flights.

PSA is an exclusively a regional carrier for American Airlines, which in July flew the second-fewest passengers from CVG of any of the major airlines — Delta, Frontier, Allegiant, United, U.S. Airways and Air Canada — that use the airport. That will change, of course, when American's merger with U.S. Airways is complete in October.

"It's not out of the realm of possibility that when an airline schedules planes to come in for maintenance that they also work those into their regular rotation of flights," said CVG CEO Candace McGraw.

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