im going to rent out my house on the hill if anyone is interested. only 12 blocks to the capitol.
20k for the week. 2 bedrooms, a study, 2 queens, a pullout couch, 2 flatscreens 50" and 32"
WITH a private parking spot.

ive seen neighbors anywhere from 10k-over 50k for the week, its insane on the hill right now

Prices were much cheaper for the 2005 inauguration. I remember flying LAX-DCA via ORD for $228 r/t. AS n/s flights to DCA were $189 r/t including taxes.

Maybe prices will drop after Thanksgiving?

I have a hard time seeing $400+/- transcon prices as "high" under any circumstance -- especially when DCA is involved. That's the base I expected to pay 15 years ago, in 1993 dollars, back when DCA was my home airport. We've been trained to see only airline-suicide / sub-profit rates as "reasonable", discount rates as "unreasonable" and rates that actually cover the cost of transporting us as "outrageous."

Fares are crazy in January, period. You can go to New Orleans from HNL for less than $500 in December but it goes up to $1300 in January. Same thing with HNL-SEA in December for $450 but $1200 in January.

I just went to DCA last week. The fare? $452 from Honolulu.

I'm going from HNL-MSY-LAS-HNL next week and paid $535.

Go figure.

Not to get too far off topic, but things are insane all over town. Can't wait to make enough in one week to pay off all of my bills AND rent for 3+ months.

Just gotta figure out where to go over the MLK weekend now!

Wow, does that include access to a fully stocked liquor cabinet?

Before my time, but DCA used to handle DC-10's and even 707's on European flights -- both bigger than a 757. This went out circa 1979, when the FAA imposed size/weight restrictions at DCA. Those landings must have had a lot of brake action!

Laws of supply and demand have not been suspended, even to go see The Chosen One.:p

they flew 707 & dc10 out of DCA? to europe? in the 70's? i don't remember that at all, but then, i don't remember much.

The 707 (at least the earlier versions) had about the same max weight as the 757, and the max landing weight of the 757-300 (which ATA has operated to DCA, I think) is higher than all models of the 707 (excluding the 320C convertible/freighter).

The 757 is about the same size as the 707.

Actually, I do...however I have no interest in rubbing elbows with 4 million fans. Memories of the election night rally in Grant Park (only 250k fans) will have to suffice for us.

I have a CO mileage run booked for Wed. Jan 21 (the day after).
Booked it back in August.

Flying out of BWI (first leg to IAH).

Since the election results all CO flights are sold out (A0Y0).

Hoping for some bump-age

Isn't a Jan. travel date kind of pointless for a MR? Or do people actually do MRs for RDMs?

DCA has, or used to have, a small "museum" of its history -- on the second floor of the old terminal. I remember a photo of First Ladie Mamie Eisenhower "inaugurating" the first European flight out of DCA -- a Sabena 707 to Brussels. Obviously this was in the 1950's, long before Dulles was operational.

As for the DC-10's, they flew into DCA well into the 1970s, but I do not know which airlines used them for DCA flights.

Maybe because nobody wanted to go see that spoiled brat swear himself into office again?