DCA
Mar 13, 2010 | 1:21 pm
#2
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: DCA or IAD (originally DUB)
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It's not a 24-hour airport. If your flight leaves at 6am, then getting there at 5am, even 5.15am, will be plenty time enough.
rly
Mar 15, 2010 | 8:34 am
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Del Ray, Alexandria, Virginia
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Posts: 1,655
At that time its seems as if there are a lot of international passengers catching flights to the larger hubs. AA is often swamped pre-6am with passengers headed for Latin America via Miami.
Mar 15, 2010 | 12:08 pm
#6
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: IAD
Programs: united, american, alaska
Posts: 1,844
Do check in on-line if you possibly can. AA and AC are both fairly chaotic in the early morning.
If I recall correctly, security opens at 4:30 a.m.
For me, a 6 a.m. flight pretty much takes away any advantage of flying out of DCA vs. IAD, since the metro can't get me there that early, but sometimes one has no choice.
If I recall correctly, security opens at 4:30 a.m.
For me, a 6 a.m. flight pretty much takes away any advantage of flying out of DCA vs. IAD, since the metro can't get me there that early, but sometimes one has no choice.