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Old Jul 16, 2013, 7:44 am
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andrewwm
 
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Originally Posted by JetAway
As someone who lives in the area and uses IAD on a weekly basis, my actual experience and frustration with UA belies your statistics.
United (mainline) in 2012 flew about the same number of pax through IAD as in 2010, had about the same gross tonnage of airplanes land at IAD (so no real shrinking of widebody->narrowbody), and had the same number of movements of mainline airplanes as pre-merger.

Unless MWAA is lying, it seems likely that what has happened is the couple of routes you are flying on have been changed but most other routes have not, and new routes have been started.

Hate to tell you, but changing a couple of routes from a hub happens all the time in the airline business.
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