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Old Dec 21, 2018 | 1:23 pm
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Originally Posted by Dave Noble
The person indicated it is a weekend day that the travel is occurring

Today, 22/12 and tomorrow 23/12, AA6168 arrives into IAD at 14:55 and AA 1649 departs at 1800 , which gives a 3 hours 5 minutes connection time

Not being a weekday, hopefully traffic is not too bad

If they misconnect, AA will be responsible for paying for a hotel for the night and getting them on the next morning's flight - the 07:00 has availability

The standard MCT for International to domestiic connection between IAD and DCA is 3 hours , so this is quite legal and no reason to freak out
Usually thats true, but do bear in mind this is the -Saturday- before Christmas. AA 1649 is listed as sold out. Probably not the only plane flying out of DCA's C concourse that is sold out tomorrow.

Remember DCA's checkin cutoff for baggage is 45 minutes.

This will be one to watch.
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