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All the service reductions recently announced by the airlines will have an impact on most Socal airports, with John Wayne seeing the steepest decline - a 12.6 percent drop in the number of seats available on an average day. Only Honolulu (23.4 percent), Oakland (21.4 percent), and Kansas City (15.8 percent) had worse cuts, according to a survey by USA Today (hat tip to the OC Register's Gary Warner). LAX is losing 6.7 percent of its daily load, Ontario is down 16.5 percent and Burbank is down 5.2 percent. Locally, only Long Beach and Santa Barbara are up, but they handle very few passengers each day. Several major airlines have announced service cuts, including American, United, Continental and US Airways. There also were some bankruptcies a while back. In most cases, these are not permanent reductions - John Wayne officials expect a rebound next year- but the cuts could have an impact on local visitor counts over the next few months. Below are the numbers for state airports:

Seats Available
--LAX -6.7%
--SF +3.4%
--San Diego -5.2%
--Oakland -20.1%
--San Jose -6.3%
--Sacramento -8.5%
--John Wayne -12.6%
--Ontario -16.5%
--Burbank -5.2%
--Long Beach +12.8%
--Fresno -12.9%
--Palm Springs -8.5%
--Santa Barbara +2.2%
--Monterey +2.6%
--San Luis Obispo -24.3%


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