Southwest Airlines Co. said Friday that its AirTran Airways subsidiary would stop operating at six U.S. airports - including Allentown and Harrisburg - on Aug. 12 as it merges routes of the two carriers. The other cities losing AirTran service are Lexington, Ky., Huntsville, Ala., Sarasota, Fla., and White Plains, N.Y.
Southwest, which acquired AirTran in May, previously announced that it would end AirTran flights at Atlantic City International Airport this month.
AirTran President Bob Jordan said in a statement the company was discontinuing service in markets where it could not fly profitably because of fuel costs.