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[edit] Major Haven for low cost

Changed the statement, as it was not the only place for low cost carriers in the region prior to Indy Air, Airtran served both Dulles and National, as well jetBlue was a player at Dulles before ACA changed to IndyAir. Also the airpor serves the Baltimore - Washigton Area, not just the Washington area. --Boothy443 08:22, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Name Change

BWI does not switch over to the new name until October 1, 2005, according to the provisions of the bill that has been passed by the General Assembly. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 21:55, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone have a link to the text of the bill that passed? The name "Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport" doesn't seem to make much sense -- shouldn't it be "Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport"? Not that I doubt the MD legislature would use such an odd name -- I guess moving Marshall's name after the "Baltimore/Washington" part was a last-minute compromise to ensure the airport stayed branded as a Washington-area airport. Also, at least one source [1] says the name change goes into effect July 1. --Jfruh 22:24, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I downloaded the bill from the GA's website. It's in a pdf fromat, House Bill 189. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 22:33, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Interestingly, throughout the law (which I suppose is official a source as any), the name is rendered Baltimore-Washington International; on the airport's Website, it's Baltimore/Washington. Sigh. --Jfruh 03:17, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bus Service

Have a citation for the bus service listed from BWI to DCA? Esorlem 02:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citing Through Service

OK, what is the proper way to cite through service? Someone edited the upcoming North American Airlines service from BWI to Accra via Banjul, to remove the "via" so it looks like BWI will soon have non-stop service to both. But the reality is BWI will have a flight to Accra, with a stop-over in Banjul. I put added the entry the way I did, by saying "via," because that is how all the press releases mentioned it--it is being marketed as service to Accra, not Banjul, but there will be a layover. Is it not correct the way I cited it, as "via?" Or should I leave off Accra, since it's not *really* a non-stop destination? If that's the case then we need to remove some "non-stops" from, say, IAD--like service to Johannesburg, since that flight stops in Dakar for a crew change and refuling (though it's unlikely many buy a ticket for the layover stop and most people know it as the "flight to Jo'burg"). Free-world 13:46, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't know the answer myself, but I think the folks over at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Airports would be good people to ask. --Jfruh (talk) 19:51, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Though i would queery the project, my thought on the matter would be to keep it a via. I would have no problem with flights that make a stop at another airport, as long as in normal operations thsi is not a change of equipment nore a chamnge in flight number, which i dont think is the case at all for this service. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 07:52, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, feel free to join the fray. There are people there who think they know the answer, but it seems to me if I have to ask the question in the first place, then it's the wrong answer. Free-world 02:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Which is one of the reasons i dont like projects, with some exceptions, they are rarely helpful. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Well you can see the Project's solution was to come here and make our heading conform to the standard: it's not "Airlines and nonstops," it's "Terminals and Destinations," and should include direct routes. I am making the argument that we need to list just non-stops, except for extraordinary situations, like long-haul international flights, and then they should be marked with a "via." Free-world 14:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, with Baltimore in particular, because it's a Southwest hub, there are plenty of SW domestic flights that stop at one or two cities, with passengers getting on and off, but retain the same flight number. In fact, I think on destination signs at the airport, they're generally signed as "Kanas City/Las Vegas" or what have you. The other airlines do it too -- my wife is flying to Seattle this summer for business on American and just found out that she'll be going via Dallas, but the flight number and plane will stay the same. Just to complicate things further. :) --Jfruh (talk) 14:21, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] St stands for Saint

Someone moved St. Louis in the alphabetized list from before Salt Lake to after San Diego, apparently unaware that most alphabetizing rules say to treat abbreviations as if they were spelled out. I moved it back, with an edit comment explaining this. Someone moved it *again,* ignoring my comment. So I solved the problem by spelling out Saint. Admittedly this is not how the city is normally known, but at least it stopped people from thinking St. came after San, and, again, I explained this in my edit comment.

Now someone has re-abbreviated Saint, ignoring the reason I did it in the first place. I'm sure it's only a matter of a day or two before someone "helpfully" decides it's in the wrong place before Salt Lake City and moves it to after San Diego, again. This is such an incredibly ticky-tack thing, but it seems ridiculous that folks come on here to "help" without bothering to look at the edit history first and see the explanations for why things were done the way they were--like when I reverted an edit showing Dallas Love Field as a n/s destination, explaining that that was not true; a day later someone added it right back in.

GRRR. Maybe bloviating about it on the Talk board will get people's attention. Can we agree that St. stands for Saint and should come before Salt? --Free-world 19:21, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parking Links

Is there any value in those links to off-site parking reservation sites? It smacks of advertising. In fact I thought at one point someone had reverted them, but there they are again, and not even formatted correctly. Should we clean them up or just trash them? --Free-world 15:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Palm Beach or West Palm Beach?

I added the note some time ago about new AirTran service to West Palm Beach, and called it such, because that's what AirTran called it in their press release. But I just changed it to say Palm Beach, because, according to Wikipedia, that's the name of the airport. It just happens to be near the town of West Palm Beach. However, I notice that Southwest has PBI as a destination from BWI also, and there it's labeled as West Palm Beach. Which is the preferred? (No doubt this has been argued about for 40,000 words on the project page like Reykjavik/Keflavik but the thought of looking over there is giving me a headache.) --Free-world 01:15, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:06, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Runway 22

I remember reading somewhere that runway 4/22 had been permanently closed. Has anyone else heard anything of the like? —Preceding unsigned comment added by SThump (talk • contribs) 00:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)