Originally Posted by
mot29
I thought there had been some talk of the DL shuttle moving over to A sort of like at LGA, but I guess they are trying to keep it all together. If the shuttle moved, is there enough transfer from the shuttle to mainline to require an airside bus?
Delta doesn't allow bookable connections from the Shuttle to other cities at DCA (much like they don't at LGA; for whatever reason they do at BOS). Irrops are one thing where an agent can override that, but that's why the only way you can do a Shuttle-non Shuttle connection at DCA is booking it multi-city (I've done this for LGA connections a few times when I lived in BOS).
That being said, DL won't move the Shuttle to A. They're competing with the US Airways Shuttle (and to an extent, CO to EWR and AA to JFK). All those carriers are in the main terminal area - real easy walk from the Metro and the parking garage. With DL running E-Jets now instead of mainline, they need to do everything they can to stay competitive with US at least - putting the Shuttle in a much less ideal location isn't going to happen.
My gut feeling is there might be some remote-parking of RJs and bussing passengers out to those flights.