US Airways will be conducting its ceremonial final flight on October 16, 2015, but it won't be landing on Pittsburgh, the city that gave it its first start, according to a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The airline will be landing in Philadelphia, Charlotte, Phoenix and San Francisco.
Ross Feinstein, a spokesman of American Airlines, told the Post-Gazette that the reason for US Airway's last flight not landing in Pittsburgh is because the city is not the airline's current hub.
"This flight is focusing on the current hubs we have in place," he said.
US Airway's snub of Pittsburgh City didn't sit well with some leaders connected with the city, according to a report from The Morning Call.
Jim Roddey, a former executive at Allegheny County, said that US Airway's snub represented "maybe the last and final insult."
The Morning Call added that William Lauer, a principal at Allegheny Capital LLC, and a local aviation analyst, said that he couldn't understand the reason why Pittsburgh wasn't included in the city where the plane will land.
"I think it, frankly, would be more appropriate than anything else," he said.
The Morning Call stated that Lauer said the ceremonial flight should have included the Reagan Airport in Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, and the LaGuardia Airport in New York.
He added that these cities have largely contributed to US Airways growth, unlike the three cities included in the ceremonial flight.
"I don't think they've had anything to do with the growth of US Airways," he said to The Morning Call.
The ceremonial flight will be US Airways last flight before its name disappears for good, except for planes that are not yet repainted, according to the Post-Gazette.
This is part of the merger with American Airlines, where US Airways planes will soon be carrying American Airlines' name.
US Airways' last flight selected the flight number 1939 because that was the year the airline got its start in Pittsburgh, according to the Post-Gazette.
The flight number provides the ceremony with a touch of nostalgia.
