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Delta Air Lines has expressed its disinterest in operating service to five airports in Michigan. As per Delta Air Lines, there is not much profit in operating these flights. It wants more money if it has to retain the services to the five airports. This is a clear indication that the cost of operation and the income generated might not be seeing eye-to-eye.

Delta recently conveyed the message to the Federal government. Not just five airports, a lot of cities are affected by this too. Some of the cities are: Sault Ste. Marie, Iron Mountain, Pellston, Escanaba and Alpena.

Some airport officials are hopeful that the government will increase its help to Delta by way of subsidizing the cost of operations. Delta’s absence from the airports might hit the consumers hard. A lot of transportation is at stake. Delta has a sizeable amount of people preferring its airlines.

The cities to which Delta has dropped services are under the federal Essential Air Service program. This program is concerned with subsidizing the cost of operations of airline operators in certain cities which would have been otherwise overlooked by commercial airline operators.

Delta’s announcement comes in the wake of fourteen millions dollars in losses. Almost all the losses were incurred by operating the flights to the twenty four locations. The government will either have to sit down with Delta and fix a deal, or otherwise for an alternate carrier.

Delta’s company spokesperson has said that it was not Delta’s intention to abandon these routes. It was just that it needed a financial lift.