<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by aCavalierInCoach:
Wonder how that works with the perimeter rule. Garuntee you they'd have as large a plane as possible on that route... can they still fly 757s into DCA?</font>
Congress created some exemptions from the perimeter rule. Much of those exemptions began with John McCain wanting a non-stop back to PHX.
757s regularly fly into DCA. Nothing bigger though, except in an emergency (I recall many folks holding their breath when a DC10 diverted a few years ago).
Some folks will remember that in the first round of exemptions, TWA got DCA-LAX. AA had to give it up when they acquired TWA from bankruptcy.
I'd be
very surprised if UA got either their DEN or SFO request - though I sure wish they would, as I live right next door...