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Old 04-17-2018, 06:40 AM
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Dave Fitzgerald
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What also may be a consideration, IAD is not gate or weather limited.

Every time I fly the 777 into EWR, I wait for a gate. Now throw in some weather, and delays are cumulative. Frustration with the airport may enter into your analysis. IAD, not so much--if you can stand the terminal and temporary gates from the 60's.

Everything that was ever wrong with EWR is still there with really no ability to fix it. However it does seem that the flying at IAD has taken a back seat to EWR, but I don't see it shrinking much more beyond what it already has.

The wild card will be the IAD 787. In the Pacific, marketing can't decide which plane gets what flying. So the 777 flying has been rather unstable between the fleets. I do foresee a bit of that in IAD.

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