Subject: Re: Virginia/DC Information<br/>
Date: Mar 07, 2002 @ 13:50<br/>
Author: shocktm (&quot;shocktm&quot; &lt;andrew@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1051446416">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;lnadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@c...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Hi.<br/>
&gt; I heard about two weeks ago that the Congressional parking at<br/>
&gt; Dulles was closed, because there is a huge parkhaus going in.<br/>
&gt; There are Congressional privileged areas at Reagan National, too.  <br/>
&gt; It is Reagan National, not Dulles, where the metro goes, and which <br/>
&gt; Bob Barr, a right-leaning Congressman browbeat the metro over signs <br/>
&gt; saying &quot;Reagan&quot; national airport. <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I thought I indicated National for the parking and Metro. I live in <br/>
Fairfax County and use the Metro enough to know where it is going. It <br/>
is interesting to note that the Metro has renamed several stations in <br/>
the past few years including mine. It use to be Vienna but is now <br/>
Vienna/Fairfax-GMU even though George Mason University is not that <br/>
close to the station.<br/>
<br/>
I am not surprised that the Congressional parking at Dulles has been <br/>
removed as very few Congressmen use Dulles. Rather they have changed <br/>
the perimeter rules at National to allow them to fly home from there. <br/>
(Sen. McCain changed the rule so that he could fly to Phoenix from <br/>
National rather than drive an extra 25 miles to Dulles)<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I believe that Braniff Airways flew commercial Concordes into<br/>
&gt; Dulles earlier than the US allowed international Concorde flights - <br/>
&gt; I could  be wrong, because they might have flown into New York.... <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>The first commercial flights of the Concorde were as indicated but <br/>
the Braniff connect to the Concords is an interesting one. Airlines <br/>
have certin rights (also called freedoms) given through their parent <br/>
countries (the country get the rights by bilateral treaties) that <br/>
dictate what/where/when they can fly to. In this case British Airways <br/>
and Air France can operate flights to and from the US but can not <br/>
operate any revenu flight within the US.* But there was demand for <br/>
flights from Dalles(DFW) to Europe. So Braniff arranged to lease the <br/>
Concordes (from both British Airways and Air France) as soon as they <br/>
landed in Dulles(IAD), register them as US airplanes, and fly to <br/>
Dalles(DFW). After dropping off passangers and picking up new ones, <br/>
the process would be reversed. Singapore did a similar service <br/>
between Bahrain and Singapore with British Airways.<br/>
<br/>
* This part can get complicated, Air France for example could have <br/>
dropped off some passangers at Dulles(IAD), the fly to Dalles(DFW) <br/>
and dropped of the remainder but they could not pickup any pasangers <br/>
for the Dulles(IAD)-Dalles(DFW) leg of the trip as that would be <br/>
generating revenue for Air France. <br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I.e., the German military mission in Dulles - it is a depoendency<br/>
&gt; of the mission itself which is just off the airport grounds in<br/>
&gt; Reston, Virginia.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I almost went the the German Military Mission a few years ago. They <br/>
we holding an Octoberfest party, but work prevent me from going. It <br/>
would have been fun as the German flew over the food and beer and as <br/>
it was in the mission it was tax-free.<br/>
<br/>
-Andrew</div>