Originally Posted by
cleanfloor
A B6 rep told me that they traded a few slots at DCA and BOS with AA. IE, AA gets a few of their boston slots and in turn B6 gets one or two at DCA
There absolutely was a trade of slots:
B6 gave up JFK slots and AA gave up DCA slots.
But neither gates nor BOS were involved. Once they had the slots B6 had to deal with gates and such directly from the Washington Airport folks.