It had more than 20 million passenger enplanements every year from 2004 to 2019, with 24 million enplanements in 2019. Dulles has the most international passenger traffic of any airport in the Mid-Atlantic outside the New York metropolitan area, including approximately 90% of the international passenger traffic in the Baltimore–Washington region. Dulles is considered the region's international air hub, with dozens of nonstop international flights. Most of the airport is in the unincorporated community of Dulles in Loudoun County, with a small portion in the unincorporated community of Chantilly in Fairfax County.ĭulles is one of the three major airports in the larger Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area, the others being Reagan National Airport and Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and by land size and amount of facilities is the largest of the three. Operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Washington Dulles Airport occupies 13,000 acres (20.3 sq mi 52.6 km 2) straddling the Loudoun–Fairfax line. The Dulles main terminal is a well-known landmark designed by Eero Saarinen, who also designed the famous TWA terminal (now the TWA hotel) at New York's JFK airport.
Secretary of State who served under President Dwight D. Opened in 1962, it is named after John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), the 52nd U.S.
Washington Dulles International Airport ( IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD, FAA LID: IAD), typically referred to as Dulles International Airport, Dulles Airport, Washington Dulles or simply Dulles ( / ˈ d ʌ l ɪ s/ DUL-iss), is an international airport in the Eastern United States, located in Loudoun County and Fairfax County in Virginia, 26 miles (42 km) west of Downtown Washington, D.C. HAS says this will help the airport with growth anticipated in the future.Source: Federal Aviation Administration, Passenger traffic The expansion will feature additional international gates, a modernized ticket booths and new arrival halls. More details on the work can be found here. On Monday, the city released this video detailing the work done so far and what's in store. But the congestion is far from over, with the terminal's reconstruction slated to last until 2024. Later this month, an additional lane will open up at the terminal, allowing for some traffic to ease. The airport says they are looking at ways to ease the flow of traffic. A lot of horns being blown out here by people picking up and dropping off. Construction on a new terminal has caused major traffic issues. Traffic back up at Bush Airport this afternoon.
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