Originally Posted by
IflyfromABE
Those gates at Dulles are horrid. Still cannot believe that they would park two 777s side by side.
I don't know... I think that UA should just fly out of there domestically only. Other than the locals who might get inconvenienced, EWR is a much more modern airport and allows for shorter connection times as well (and will get even better when UA abandons terminal A)
Your argument has no basis in fact: you can argue the interior of concourse C/D at IAD is ugly, but aircraft spacing for international flights at the low-number end of C is actually greater than either EWR or ORD. They built it for 747s and 777s, and the spacing is actually quite generous to allow for multiple simultaneous operations. Aside from screwing their customers, United would be giving up one of their higher yielding, less competitive markets.
You might as well say that Newark should be abandoned because that regional yet blew 4 tires and overran the runway last week.