Originally Posted by
dpakman91
I'm going to DC in october, flying from BDL. There are many nonstop flights per day to IAD on UA and to DCA on US.
I have the UA economy plus yearly pass, so i can get better seats on UA, but will be spending the entire trip in downtown DC, so it seems DCA is much closer (I've never actually flown into DCA).
Ticket prices are the same in principle, but I do have a $75 voucher I can use on UA which will drop the price down. I'm unsure if having to get to and from IAD is a worthwhile price to pay in exchange for $75 cheaper ticket and an E+ seat. what are people's thoughts?
how much does it cost for some of the options for getting downtown from IAD? I assume from DCA i can just take the metro to my hotel.
From BDL, DCA is an easy choice. It's a 10-minute taxi ride to downtown (and not much more by Metro). On the outbound, checkpoint waits at DCA are almost uniformly significantly shorter than IAD. E+ isn't much of a benefit on a 40-min flight.
Frankly, I routinely fly TCON on UA DCA-ORD-West Coast rather than the mess of treking to IAD for non-stop, waiting at security and still having to get to an inconvenient gate.