Originally Posted by
Clerj
Going to training soon and hoping to bid dca or ewr 320. Reading the previous posts and curious what fsb's stood for. Also is DCA the primary airport like (ewr covers lga but most trips start and end in ewr) or in DCA, are the trips pretty much split up between dca and iad? My commute to DCA, IAD and EWR are all fairly the same so just wondering the best choice. Thx!
DCA is the base name, a holdover from ancient times before IAD was even built, but IAD is the admin location.
For the Bus, on average IAD has 50-60% of the flying, DCA has about 30-40% and the rest out of BWI. Will vary a bit from month to month, and the wildcard will be what happens when the 737 base gets spooled up to its final size (about halfway there at the moment)
BWI is definitely the small training wheel on the bicycle of the DCA base.