Originally Posted by
jackonferry
I just got off a flight out of 35X. Everything about that gate is maddening, from the long lines that frequently block the bottom of the escalator, to having to get on buses that are ever-so-slightly smaller in capacity than the jet that you are going out to, to having to wait out in the cold and rain to collect your gate-checked bag if you are coming in to 35X, to everything else that I can think of. That gate can't die quickly enough.
Yes. I recently had my first experience at this gate in all my years of flying out of DCA and it sucked and exactly as described.