UA to cut DEN-MRY Route. 82% load factor not Enough..?

United Airlines will drop its nonstop route between DEN - MRY, on June 5.:(
United Express affiliate Sky West currently flies one daily round-trip flight between the cities on Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jets. We are deeply disappointed with United's decision and sad to lose this service," Tom Greer, general manager at MRY, says to The Herald of Monterey. "This announcement took us by surprise."
United also flies from Monterey to SFO and LAX. Those routes will remain.
As for the Denver route, United tells The Californian newspaper it has had to adjust its summer flight schedules operated by its regional affiliates because of a shortage of pilots at those carriers.
United began its DEN - MRY route in June 2005. The flight had an 82% load factor for the 12 months ending February 2014, according to the Californian. The newspaper writes "though respectable, it was less than the 90% average on competing routes flown by United from Denver."