Originally Posted by
hayzel7773
IAD was always a long shot. Back in 2015-2016, BR was leaking to places like Anna.aero about potential services to MXP, BOS, IAD, BCN, MAD etc., all of which were never true.
IAD was always a bit of wishful thinking. There is not a lot of UA feeds at IAD (compare to ORD or IAH) so it needed to have strong Washington DC/Northern VA point of sale O&D to TPE and Southeast Asia. 77W was definitely too big. I'm not sure if BR can fill a 787-9 either.