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Old Oct 12, 2016 | 7:00 pm
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To anticipate the next topic..."I want [insert airline here] to fly to [insert destination beyond 1,250 miles from DCA here]"

In the byzantine set of congressional/DOT regulations associated with the Perimeter Rule (which restricts flights to/from DCA to 1,250 miles) there are 4 "wild card" slots that were awarded to the 4 major carriers in 2012:

US: SAN (changed to LAX after the AA merger)
AA: LAX
UA: SFO
DL: SLC (this is the one being changed to LAX)

These 4 slots can be changed anytime to any place. All other flights (including those already operating beyond perimeter) require government approval to change.

DL already had a SLC slot from prior congressional/DOT allocations. To start DCA-LAX they gave up one of the 2 SLC slots reluctantly and moved the service to IAD.
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