Pittsburgh airport: ideally located, growing, and filling network gaps

Pittsburgh International Airport has been one of the more successful former hubs, having embraced its new profile as an O&D market; the airport's leadership has worked hard to build a service profile that fits the needs of the region's residents, and caters to the growing technology sector in the area.

The airline marks a major milestone during the US summer season when China Eastern operates nonstop seasonal charter service from Shanghai. That service will allow China Eastern to gain some insight about demand patterns to a medium-sized city such as Pittsburgh. Direct service to Asia is essentially on top of every midsize US airport's wish list.

Pittsburgh is also working to fill in domestic network gaps to the US west coast and scored a key win with the launch of new direct service to Seattle, which is scheduled to start in Sep-2018. The airport is working hard to bolster flight options to the US west coast as passengers' preference is to avoid connections when travelling to that region of the country.