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It is a hub for American Airlines. It hosts international flights, but the airport has no immigration and customs facilities, restricting routes to those with U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance facilities, including major airports in Canada and the Caribbean. Reagan National is also home to Coast Guard Air Station Washington. [10]
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Most of the flights were offered by American Airlines, [41]: 1 [42] and the airline was described as having a virtual monopoly on the route. [41]: 2 Around 90% of the passengers on the accident flight were of Dominican descent. [43] The Guardian described the flight as having "cult status" in Washington Heights, a Dominican area of Manhattan. [43]
American Airlines ordered 25 DC-10s in its first order. [16] [17] The DC-10 made its first flight on August 29, 1970, [18] and received its type certificate from the FAA on July 29, 1971. [19] On August 5, 1971, the DC-10 entered commercial service with American Airlines on a round-trip flight between Los Angeles and Chicago. [20]
Terminal E has 17 gates. It is home to Alaska Airlines (check-in only, departures from D6), Frontier, JetBlue (check-in only as of 2022), Southwest, and Sun Country Airlines (check-in only, departures from Terminal D). It opened in 1977, a fan-shaped extension at the end of the concourse was constructed along with the Connector Project in 2008.
American Airlines has one Admirals Club in the terminal. The terminal originally handled United Express flights (gates 71C-71K) until it was vacated in 2005. [53] American Eagle flights were relocated to the terminal in January 2010 from a remote terminal which was 0.3 miles (480 m) west of Terminal 4 that would later be demolished.
Midway Airlines replaced AA as the airport's hub carrier from 1995 until 2003. [23] In 1995, Midway had flights to Boston, Hartford, Long Island, Newark, Newburgh, New York, Philadelphia and Washington in the Northeast, and to Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach in Florida. [24]
A Convair 580, similar to the one operating the inaugural American Eagle flight An American Eagle Bombardier CRJ700. Prior to the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, most major US air carriers had maintained close relationships with independent regional carriers in order to feed passengers from smaller markets into the larger cities, and, in turn, onto the larger legacy carriers.