"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

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Airlines don't use DUAT for filing nor go they file with FSS briefers.
If you think the airlines don't get treated differently in many respects
then you don't know much about ATA and its FAA lackies in DC.


That's quite a leap from the computer limitations you said you were
responding to.

Not at all. The carriers make sure the skids are greased for their flight
plans to seamlessly and automatically transfer from their host to the FAA
host. Unless someone wants to manually change a route on an air carrier
domestic flight plan, no human is even involved. It all is computed and sent
to the appropriate station and the FAA in a timely manner.

I doubt Roy Smith's home PC does that.