It blamed the decision on difficulty getting access to the airport in Newark, which was also the reason it cited 15 days ago for canceling its first month of service.
John Weikle, the company's chief executive officer, said company officials now plan to "refocus on different markets" and are unsure if a new plan will include Toledo or other Midwestern cities that were listed in the service announcements they made in late May.
"We still strongly believe that there is an unmet need for affordable air service to secondary markets and we look forward to offering this option again in the near future," Mr. Weikle said.
"Newark will definitely not be on the new map, however," he added.
Refunds for travelers booked on JetAmerica flights are to be issued within 14 days, and the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority said it would offer rebooking assistance and parking vouchers to travelers who had bought tickets on the carrier for Toledo flights through Oct. 31.
"This is a big disappointment. We had a lot of excitement, a lot of hope that we were having a chance to get big-jet service into Toledo," Michael Stolarczyk, the port authority's president, said yesterday. "I'm really bummed out. There's no other way of putting it. But we did everything we possibly could to bring them here."
We have family on the East Coast, so we were looking forward to this as a way to actually be able to visit them more without the 12 hour drive...
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