Originally Posted by
finny52
Pucnit, would you really be willing to connect nearly every week through CLT? That more than doubles travel time given the short distance between ATL-DCA.
Probably more like a 50% increase in travel time since CLT most connections are between 35 minutes and an hour.
Unfortunately there just aren't enough available slots at DCA for carriers to waste any trying to compete with flights to another carrier's hub, especially a mega-hub like ATL. If you were running AA/US, would you use 28 precious slots to compete with DL to ATL or use them for service to places where you'd have no non-stop competion to/from DCA?
Also, there's no indication yet that IAD won't continue to be a part of US or US/AA's networks. If that flying was unprofitable I suspect that both AA and US would have dropped it yet both still serve IAD.
Jim