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Delta Cuts Affect Maine Airports

(NEWS CENTER) -- Delta Airlines announced Wednesday that it's laying off employees and cutting back on flights. The company cites high fuel prices as the reason. Flights in Maine will be affected.

Rebecca Hupp, director of Bangor International Airport, confirms that ComAir, which operates Delta, Northwest and Continental flights, is eliminating its Bangor to Cincinnati flight.

Hupp says in its place ComAir will fly from Bangor to Boston. The company says it will increase flights as well as available seats.

At the Portland Jetport, Director Jeff Schultes says he has not heard of any flight changes, but that doesn't mean there won't be any. He says "even large airports are losing flights as we go into these hard times."

Schultes says shorter flights may be less likely to be cut because they cost less to operate. He says each summer the Jetport gets a flight from Minneapolis, but there is also one from Detroit. Wednesday Schultes wondered whether the Jetport would still be getting that Minneapolis flight.