Four Airlines Fight for DCA Slots..

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27-Mar-2014, 07:31 AM
ddagencylv

Four Airlines Fight for DCA Slots..

Four airlines have applied for a pair of slots at DCA so they can offer one round trip a day out of the close-in airport.– AA to offer a daily round trip to Islip, N.Y., on Long Island. It would use 50-seat Bombardier CRJ 200 jets.– SWA proposes to offer a daily round trip to MCI continuing the service it began offering Feb. 1 on a temporary award. It would continue using 143-seat Boeing 737-700 jets.– B6 proposed to offer a daily round trip to JAX. It would use 100-seat Embraer E190 jets.:cool:– People Express Airlines, a proposed airline, proposed to offer a daily round trip to MYR from April to October, and to PBI from October to April. It would use 150-seat Boeing 737-400 jets.
27-Mar-2014, 10:15 AM
MRSDS1DONNA

Someone wants to use the name People's Express again? I flew on them in the early 80's. You reserved ahead and paid on board with cash or a credit card (just a swipe, I'm sure they had no idea if it was valid or not when you boarded). It was an interesting experience.
27-Mar-2014, 11:06 AM
spongebue

Whoa, now THAT is weird to me. But I suppose the occasional deadbeat may be outweighed by cost savings of not processing tickets the normal way? So many differences, hard to make a good assessment.

My bet is on WN or maybe AA getting this one.
27-Mar-2014, 02:51 PM
mrs767er

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Originally Posted by MRSDS1DONNA

Someone wants to use the name People's Express again? I flew on them in the early 80's. You reserved ahead and paid on board with cash or a credit card (just a swipe, I'm sure they had no idea if it was valid or not when you boarded). It was an interesting experience.

I flew MANY times on PeoplExpress--drove to CMH from Cincinnati, to get to EWR (oh God, that horrid old terminal!!). Ex's family lived nearby and we worked in NYC several times a year. I hated the long drive and the $19-39 OW fares were what we could afford. They didn't even swipe cards--they used a pull-down imprinter! After hours of sitting in terminals on the floors, we also had interesting experiences--ones I prefer to NEVER repeat. That's just one reason I consider myself a nonrev brat now. I used to get oodles of upgrade cards from a PIT CS rep for USAir when I was "medallion" level. I'm still trying to use those miles! Oh, how times change!
28-Mar-2014, 09:36 AM
ddagencylv

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Originally Posted by mrs767er

I flew MANY times on PeoplExpress--drove to CMH from Cincinnati, to get to EWR (oh God, that horrid old terminal!!). Ex's family lived nearby and we worked in NYC several times a year. I hated the long drive and the $19-39 OW fares were what we could afford. They didn't even swipe cards--they used a pull-down imprinter! After hours of sitting in terminals on the floors, we also had interesting experiences--ones I prefer to NEVER repeat. That's just one reason I consider myself a nonrev brat now. I used to get oodles of upgrade cards from a PIT CS rep for USAir when I was "medallion" level. I'm still trying to use those miles! Oh, how times change!

Yep there Almost back...

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