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Old May 17, 2016 | 12:44 pm
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Originally Posted by arlflyer
This is pretty tight. My main concern is that I believe the DCA-EYW flight only runs on weekends, once a day. If you miss it you're out of luck. The SYR-DCA flight is probably on small equipment, and thus there is a chance it might operate into 35X at DCA, which is a bus gate. The plane pulls up to a parking spot, you get off the plane and stand next to it for a long time, everyone retrieves bags, you get on a bus to the terminal. It can eat up a ton of time. It looks like the SYR flights have been using jetbridges lately, looking at arrivals, but with a CRJ there is always a chance of ending up at 35X.
If it's operated by CR2 it will almost definitely end up in the hell hole that is 35X. Larger CRJs (CR7 / CR9) will likely go to a real gate.
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