US Airways is cutting fares on 21 routes between markets in the eastern and midwestern US and its hubs in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Charlotte. Sample fares provided by the airline show reductions of between 42% (Charlotte-Indianapolis, Philadelphia-Akron) and 61% (Pittsburgh-Syracuse). The routes may be operated by its Regional partners, America West or through codeshare operations with United Airlines.

Separately, US Airways Group (US Airways mainline, America West and US Airways Express) reported a 7% drop in traffic to 4.86 billion RPMs in December compared to the year-ago month. Capacity declined 7.4% to 6.73 billion ASMs and load factor lifted 0.3 point to 72.2%. Passengers enplaned fell 9% to 5.2 million. Domestic mainline traffic was down 13.3% to 2.63 billion RPMs on a capacity decrease of 13.4% to 3.72 billion ASMs and load factor was static at 70.7%. Year-end consolidated traffic climbed 1.9% to 66.65 billion RPMs, capacity rose 0.9% to 87.56 billion ASMs and load factor increased 0.8 point to 76.1%.