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Old May 17, 2016 | 12:48 pm
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Originally Posted by arlflyer
I agree that this is the SOP these days and indeed the SYR flights have been going off of jetbridges as I noted. However the larger CRJs can and do end up at 35X now and then, so when we are talking a 40 minute connection to a one-shot flight I didn't want to just brush off the possibility.
Completely agreed. If not on mainline, I would not do sub-1hr connections at DCA, especially on low-frequency routes. Service recovery could be pretty ugly in that case.
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