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Old Feb 12, 2007, 8:35 am
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Originally Posted by joshua-bwi
Actually, the BWI hub was reduced greatly following the arrival of WN in 1993. At some point (correct me if I'm wrong) probably around 1995 or 96, US began their MetroJet mess and based it out of BWI as a direct response to WN. Tht lasted a few years until MetroJet ceased operations and US all but left BWI. I guess things got a little better after the merger with the addition of the HP routes...
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroJet

MetroJet began operations on June 1st 1998
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