Originally Posted by
thezipper
... while i understand why, how competitive is that, compared to US or CO? I mean thats one of the BIGGEST things that ticks me off at ORD when I'm flying UA... the walk to the RJ's in the middle of winter or bad weather (one reason why I don't fly those routes at that time of the year) ... so a businessperson, do I a) take a flight where I walk onto the plane and don't get wet... or take a bus to a RJ where I walk to the plane and get wet before my business meeting in NY...
I completely agree that it's uncompetitive with CO - though US has been doing it at DCA for years. I think the ideal situation for Delta is to at least get Air Canada to move which would allow for maybe all but one evening flight and a couple of morning flights to have jetways. I'm guessing the reason why DCA keeps getting pushed back is because the powers that be are still trying to figure out the answers to all these questions, and/or figuring if they can realign flight schedules to make it possible to have everything at a jetway.