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I imagine that won't be the case for long I'd the rumors are true

bronco21016 8y ago
DCA is slot controlled so the slot owners are going to have to weigh the revenue of SEA/DCA vs all the other markets they’re currently using those slots for. One business often isn’t going to bring enough revenue to compete with a market like BOS/DCA or NYC/DCA which consumes an enormous amount of the slots.
- snowwrestler 8y ago
  DCA also has a "perimeter rule" in place, which forbids flights between DCA and airports more than 1,250 miles away, unless a specific exception is made. http://www.flyreagan.com/dca/dca-reagan-national-slot-perimeter-rules http://www.flyreagan.com/dca/dca-reagan-national-slot-perime...
  - synaesthesisx 8y ago
    What the purpose of a perimeter rule? Just curious...
    - reaperducer 8y ago
      Originally, it was to put regional routes in the regional airport, and long-distance routes in the long-distance airport. (As told to me by an urban studies professor I picked up at Dulles when I was a chauffeur in college.) Similar to how in New York, LaGuardia was supposed to be for domestic flights, Kennedy for international flights, and Newark for freight. But that didn't fully work out. (Same source.)
      - mikeash 8y ago
        Ever since Dulles was built, there’s been a struggle to actually get people to use it. DCA is just so much more convenient. I’ve heard from people who were around at the time that it was virtually a ghost town when it opened, and was a great place to fly small planes since there wasn’t much commercial traffic. Even today, the two airports serve about the same number of passengers per year, despite Dulles being approximately eleven thousand times larger. Personally, I use DCA whenever I can. It usually takes me about fifteen minutes from car to gate. Dulles takes ages and ages, since everything is so far away. A lot of the rules are just trying to get people to use that big expensive airport more.
    - dsg42 8y ago
      The answer to every question about why DCA isn't as you would expect is that it's controlled by Congress and they optimize it for personal purposes.
      - snowwrestler 8y ago
        Most members of Congress don't care about the perimeter rule (if they are inside the perimeter) or hate it (if they are outside the perimeter). That's why there are exceptions now. The rule still exists because local jurisdictions really really want to keep it, and getting rid of it is just not worth the fight for anyone else.

DCA is slot controlled so the slot owners are going to have to weigh the revenue of SEA/DCA vs all the other markets they’re currently using those slots for. One business often isn’t going to bring enough revenue to compete with a market like BOS/DCA or NYC/DCA which consumes an enormous amount of the slots.

snowwrestler 8y ago
DCA also has a "perimeter rule" in place, which forbids flights between DCA and airports more than 1,250 miles away, unless a specific exception is made. http://www.flyreagan.com/dca/dca-reagan-national-slot-perimeter-rules http://www.flyreagan.com/dca/dca-reagan-national-slot-perime...
- synaesthesisx 8y ago
  What the purpose of a perimeter rule? Just curious...
  - reaperducer 8y ago
    Originally, it was to put regional routes in the regional airport, and long-distance routes in the long-distance airport. (As told to me by an urban studies professor I picked up at Dulles when I was a chauffeur in college.) Similar to how in New York, LaGuardia was supposed to be for domestic flights, Kennedy for international flights, and Newark for freight. But that didn't fully work out. (Same source.)
    - mikeash 8y ago
      Ever since Dulles was built, there’s been a struggle to actually get people to use it. DCA is just so much more convenient. I’ve heard from people who were around at the time that it was virtually a ghost town when it opened, and was a great place to fly small planes since there wasn’t much commercial traffic. Even today, the two airports serve about the same number of passengers per year, despite Dulles being approximately eleven thousand times larger. Personally, I use DCA whenever I can. It usually takes me about fifteen minutes from car to gate. Dulles takes ages and ages, since everything is so far away. A lot of the rules are just trying to get people to use that big expensive airport more.
  - dsg42 8y ago
    The answer to every question about why DCA isn't as you would expect is that it's controlled by Congress and they optimize it for personal purposes.
    - snowwrestler 8y ago
      Most members of Congress don't care about the perimeter rule (if they are inside the perimeter) or hate it (if they are outside the perimeter). That's why there are exceptions now. The rule still exists because local jurisdictions really really want to keep it, and getting rid of it is just not worth the fight for anyone else.