Southwest already on the mend; launches new flight between DCA and IAD
Dec 29, 2022, 10:22 pm
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Southwest already on the mend; launches new flight between DCA and IAD
Unless they really needed that bird in DCA, one thinks the staff could have taken the metro or Uber.
Pic courtesy of https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1608687024147517440?s=46&t=HhnwLeqMf1iZN_Wq3iEo5Q
Dec 30, 2022, 10:39 am
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That’d be a fun segment to fly! I believe 8000 numbered flights used to be for maintenance/dispatch/charters. And WN has a bigger operation out of DCA than IAD so I guess the repositioning makes sense.
Dec 30, 2022, 4:23 pm
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I'm thinking its a charter flight for a defense contractor. They'll submit the bill to Uncle Sam for reimbursement.
Dec 30, 2022, 11:49 pm
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30 years ago I took a flight out of SFO with a stop at OAK to pick up more passengers. The FA's demonstrated the oxygen masks, then the pilot announced that we would be cruising at 5000 feet. 
Dec 31, 2022, 12:46 am
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Dec 31, 2022, 9:20 am
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In the 1980s, I was on a CO flight from IAH-FLL. It had a stop in MIA. I recall the taxi out at MIA seemed really long, and I wondered if we were just going to take I-95.
Dec 31, 2022, 10:57 am
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DCA flies to Florida snd just about all airports in the central time zone and some secondary eastern cities. They do this for political/ lobbying reasons
ifcongress does something in response to what happened , don’t be surprise to see drop in these services to secondary airports
Dec 31, 2022, 11:00 am
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There have been some DCA-BWIand I’ve seen denver-Colorado springs
When will hobby IAH occur and MDW-ORD and Bsy area snd metro LA hops
When will hobby IAH occur and MDW-ORD and Bsy area snd metro LA hops
Dec 31, 2022, 10:01 pm
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USAir used to fly from ORD to Elmira and then Ithaca in a DC-9, about 30 miles. I did it once and the gear was not raised. We took off to the northeast, climbed perhaps 2-3,000 feet, made a left turn and landed.
Dec 31, 2022, 10:52 pm
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I worked at MIA airport but actually lived near FLL was going to NAS flew FLL-MIA made a connection at MIA to NAS that was on EA.
Jan 3, 2023, 2:09 pm
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Jetblue did some metro LA hops during a short period where one of the major freeways had to be entirely closed for some kind of construction.