Originally Posted by
CLTF
Actually the ATL is not really that far from IAD, which is in the lesser miles zone.
I was sure I had read somewhere it would be west/east of the miss river for a divider? maybe that would make more sense haha anyway - whats done is done!
It's not actually east or west of anywhere, just distances. So LHR-ATL is 50,000 miles rather than 40,000 simply because it is over 4000 miles (4,200 in this case). It's never a pleasant situation to be 'just the wrong side' of any threshold, but unfortunately, there has to be one, and wherever you put it, someone will feel that they have just missed out.