Originally Posted by AndyPatterson

Totally counter-intuitive outcome. When booking my holiday travel, the return flight from SEA to Washington DC on Sunday, December 26, priced out over $500 higher for the SEA-DCA route than for the SEA-IAD route. Although the taxi or Uber ride from IAD - my home in DC is twice the cost of the ride from DCA to home, I figured it was worth saving the money.

Fast forward to Sunday, December 26 -- AS cancelled the single-digit AS 3 flight to DCA, but flew the four-digit AS 1078 flight to IAD!

What gives? My guess is that there were no members of Congress booked for December 26 into DCA, as Congress is still on recess, hence that was a lower priority than the IAD flight. Otherwise, I would have expected the single-digit flight numbers to have a higher priority...

As it happens, the IAD flight was delayed by 4 hours, due to insufficient # of de-icers at SEA -- yes, I know that SEA and Seattle in general do not handle snow very well! Still, I was glad to get home on Sunday night instead of having to wait until Monday to fly out.

What happened to all the SEA-DCA flyers on Sunday? Only a few seats were available on the SEA-IAD flight, so were they re-routed through PDX or LAX, or else had to wait until Monday?

Unrelated thought -- the new seats in the 737-900, even in F, sure are uncomfortable, especially after 9 hours!