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Old Jan 20, 2017 | 9:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Paolo01
Every year from Jan 01 to Mar 06 the redeye flight from SAN to IAD disappears. This is a planned UA route change. Where does this metal go during these 9 weeks. What is the required route that makes this particular route impossible to fly.

I fly SAN to IAD weekly and it is ALWAYS full. So this is not a late winter passenger capacity on the route issue.

Basically during these 9 weeks I am required to fly SAN-EWR-IAD. Yuck.
My guess is that they don't see the demand so they put aircraft on routes with higher demand or use the time to do heavy maintenance or make the travel experience more miserable on the plane for passengers.
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