JFK Needs More RJ'S

[LowlyPropCapt]

I don't know if Delta does that at JFK but I do know, from personal experience, that United does that at IAD occasionally.

US Airways pulls the same trick all the time. My understanding is that the operations folks at the various airlines are able to "bargin" in some ways with the traffic management folks at the centers. Maybe an ATC guy can chime in and tell us how it works?

 

[dispatchguy]

I used to work for a UAX carrier, and once we would get our slot times from UA, if I really needed a plane in a better slot, I would just usually call Center TMU, or the Customer Advocate at System Command Center, and 9 times outta 10, get a better slot time...

The ones we would get from UA would really suck, and they would even violate their own rules on how much delay they would give a UAX flight. It got to calling UA for better times was just a waste of a fone call; that they didnt want to hear from us "lowly" express-folk.