I was booked on the 7:35am CLE-DCA on Monday only to find that even though the inbound bird arrived 10 minutes early and no other flights into DCA were cancelled that morning, mine was for "Air Traffic Control" reasons.....

"Protection" for me meant a 4:45pm flight in.

I'd love to know why ATC decided to stop a bird from Cleveland while the EWR bird and all of DL, UA and US's flights were on time.

I realize irregular ops happen, but something smelled on that one.