The Spring Break effect?
Apr 12, 2014 | 6:07 pm
#16
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Washington DC
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Apr 12, 2014 | 6:15 pm
#17
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Programs: UA MM | BA Gold
Posts: 7,299
Makes me wonder if there is a mass exodus from the DC area... Was looking at changing IAD-OKC to something leaving from DCA (due to ride issues) and connecting and noticed that all of the options were 2000+. Pretty sure OKC is not on many people's spring break plans. Then just for funsies checked the load for my flight via KVS. Everything in coach is zerod out and F1C1A1P1Z1. Maybe I should stock up on toilet paper and water??
(ps forgive me if the post is awful 1st time poster but long time lurker)
(ps forgive me if the post is awful 1st time poster but long time lurker)
Apr 12, 2014 | 7:43 pm
#18
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: DEN
Programs: UA Gold-MM, AA Gold-MM, F9-Silver, Hyatt Something, Marriott Gold, IHG Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 6,443
Apr 12, 2014 | 7:45 pm
#19
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: IAH + SLC
Programs: UA - 1K, DL-DM, Hilton Gold, IHG Platinum, Marriott Titanium Lifetime
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I was in DC this past week and hotel prices were insane. (even higher than the normally merely outrageous DC prices) My outbound flight on Friday was overbooked. It was indeed a busy travel week in DC.
Apr 13, 2014 | 4:40 am
#20
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: IAD/LHR/NRT
Programs: UA GS, Hyatt Platinum, HHonors Gold
Posts: 87
Spring Break In Effect at IAD - That's For Sure
Yesterday was a stark reminder why flying into IAD on Saturday (especially in the Spring) is such a bad idea:
1. A warning from the pilot that there were five TATL flights all arriving at the same time as us so that if we had a connection, wed better hurry.
2. Nearly run over exiting the plane by a German couple who had a one hour layover.
3. 20 minute wait for a mobile lounge. Not sitting on the lounge and waiting for it to go as usual but a 20 minute wait in the boarding area for a lounge to actually arrive as hordes of people came pouring down the escalators with nowhere to go.
4. Queues for Immigration (both US and non-US) all the way back to the end of the ropes. Judging by past experience Im guessing a 90 minute wait for US and 2+ hours for everyone else.
5. A five -minute wait for Global Entry (I am not complaining!) Best money Ive ever spent.
6. 5 High School class trips in the walk from International Arrivals to Garage 1. Amazing how the chaperones think it's OK to mass their charges right in the middle so no one can get past.
Its been several years since Ive flown back from LHR on a Saturday. Now I remember why.
1. A warning from the pilot that there were five TATL flights all arriving at the same time as us so that if we had a connection, wed better hurry.
2. Nearly run over exiting the plane by a German couple who had a one hour layover.
3. 20 minute wait for a mobile lounge. Not sitting on the lounge and waiting for it to go as usual but a 20 minute wait in the boarding area for a lounge to actually arrive as hordes of people came pouring down the escalators with nowhere to go.
4. Queues for Immigration (both US and non-US) all the way back to the end of the ropes. Judging by past experience Im guessing a 90 minute wait for US and 2+ hours for everyone else.
5. A five -minute wait for Global Entry (I am not complaining!) Best money Ive ever spent.
6. 5 High School class trips in the walk from International Arrivals to Garage 1. Amazing how the chaperones think it's OK to mass their charges right in the middle so no one can get past.
Its been several years since Ive flown back from LHR on a Saturday. Now I remember why.