The primary reason is that, although it only opened in 1994, you had to take a shuttle to the concourse. The long range plans call for all of the concourses to be inner-connected -- in Concourse A and B, which will eventually be expanded. Delta is trying to save money wherever it can, although it still has to pay the lease on Concourse C until 2025.
CVG's prices are outrageous. You can drive to Louisville or Dayton and have far cheaper flights.
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Delta Pulls Comair Flights Out Of Concourse CBy Jeff Brogan, Bill Price and Shannon Kettler, Kentucky Post, August 26, 2008 Delta has confirmed it's pulling all of it's Comair flights out of Concourse C at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport.
In 1994, Concourse C at the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport opened to customers.
In order to get to Concourse C, commuters have to take a shuttle from the main terminal.
On Tuesday, Delta announced Concourse C is shutting down by January of 2009 due to a reduction of flights brought on by the high fuel costs.
"By consolidating our flights, we can put our customers in the amenity rich environment in concourse A and concourse B. So really the schedule pull down and the consolidation is making this happen," said Don Bornhorst, Senior VP of Delta Connection.
Bornhorst said less than a hundred Comair employees will lose their jobs.
"No impact to Delta employees whatsoever and the impact to Comair should be small and when we do we will work voluntary programs and normal attrition and try minimize impact to our employees," said Don Bornhorst, Senior VP of Delta Connection.
A vendor at the airport did not want to talk on camera but tells 9news the announcement is devastating.
Starting as early as next week a number of gates at Concourse C will close for good.
There are currently 23 vendors at Concourse C.
What will happen to all of them and how many jobs will be lost at this point is unclear.
"We do receive a great deal of revenue from payroll taxes here at the county government and when jobs our lost that means a reduction in payroll taxes. This will not be a major impact on the payroll but it will be a major impact on those families," said Judge Executive Gary Moore of Boone County.
Customers have mixed reaction to Delta's announcement.
"I don't like the fact they are reducing the number of flights but I like the fact I don't have to go to concourse C because taking the shuttle, it takes longer and you are in hurry so that will help out," said Chris Graham, a Comair Customer.
Delta will continue paying on their lease for another 17 years until 2025.
We still don't know how many Comair and vendor workers will find their Concourse C jobs moved to other parts of the airport, and how many could end up losing their jobs. Delta says it will move many of those jobs to Concourse A and B when it moves all Comair flights out of Concourse C in January.
Other workers at Concourse C shops and restaurants may also be affected when Comair pulls its flights out and moves them to other concourses. Some workers may be able to move to jobs at co-owned shops elsewhere in the airport, while other employees may face job losses.
Why is Delta making this change with it's wholly-owned subsidiary, Comair? A Delta news release says it wants to increase passenger comfort by eliminating the shuttle bus ride to Concourse C as well as having to board Comair's regional jets by walking outside the terminal to the plane.
The airline says it is building 11 new loading bridges and making other improvements so passengers will always have covered walkways when boarding or leaving Comair planes, after January.
