Didn't see this posted yet. US has loaded the first round of new DCA service today. Also announced is new service from PHL and CLT. Here are the new cities and frequencies:
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Didn't see this posted yet. US has loaded the first round of new DCA service today. Also announced is new service from PHL and CLT. Here are the new cities and frequencies:
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Well, be careful with that assumption. DCA can be a disaster if you hit it wrong. Imagine you arrive slightly delayed on a CRJ from PIT (no gate for you), the apron is busy so you wait for a bus, finally, after everybody gets off the airplane, baggage jockeys unload carry-ons in the belly, passengers claim their yellow tagged carryons at plane-side, and then stuff their luggage in the overflowing bus luggage rack and then, finally, the bus finally lumbers back to 35A with bags flying everywhere--standing room only.
Then once you get to refugee encampment 35A, you find out your connecting flight is at gate 24 which is in the OTHER pier. Well, if you dont know that there is a bus to the OTHER PIER you will exit security, have to go back through security again at the OTHER PIER. If you are able to find the bus, it sits there for 5 minutes, provided the driver is even there or cares, finally takes you over to the other PIER.
Same Pier, no problem it is a dream. But DCA is getting congested and all of the new flights into 35A with Gate Agents who struggle to scream intelligible English at passengers while they board 5 flights at once, (from the same door) 3 of which are delayed (HPN is always one of the delayed flights), can screw up your day.
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DCA, IMHO, is one of the few places where a 30 minute connection is actually reasonable.
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is it DCA-VPS or Valparaiso? Another website indicates Valparaiso, not sure if they are talking IN or what. Its a far fetch for Indiana, but ya never know. Someone in Washington prolly said you'll fly to my district and i'll apprve the swap.
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is it DCA-VPS or Valparaiso? Another website indicates Valparaiso, not sure if they are talking IN or what. Its a far fetch for Indiana, but ya never know. Someone in Washington prolly said you'll fly to my district and i'll apprve the swap.
It is DCA-VPS (Fort Walton Beach). It might be called Valparaiso by some people because the airport is officially in Valparaiso, FL.
Unfortunate to see so many CRJ routes added, but we've got to keep in mind that US doesn't have a whole lot of extra mainline aircraft/larger RJ's lying around. Most of the routes cut from LGA were CRJ or Dash-8's, so it's not surprising to see CRJ routes added from DCA.
I just hope there's a long-term plan to accomodate gate space for all these new RJ/Dash flights. 35A is a hot mess on a good day; they don't need an extra 60 passengers standing around at any given time.
This had come up before, but there was talk that US/CO/UA might take the middle pier of the north terminal and have AA move to some of the DL/CO gates down on the south pier.
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