The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor. The location of the former Blue Ridge Airport sits where the Dulles Air Freight complex and Washington Dulles Airport Marriott now sit today. The airport was Loudoun County's first official airport, consisting of two grass intersecting runways in the shape of an "X". ĭulles was also built over a lesser-known airport named Blue Ridge Airport, chartered in 1938 by the U.S. As a result of the site selection, the unincorporated, largely African-American community of Willard, which once stood in the airport's current footprint, was demolished, and 87 property owners had their holdings condemned. The current site was selected by President Eisenhower in 1958 the Dulles name was chosen by Eisenhower's aviation advisor Pete Quesada, who later served as the first head of the Federal Aviation Administration. One competing plan called for the airport to be built in the Pender area of Fairfax County, while another called for the conversion of Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland, into a commercial airport. The initial CAA proposal in 1951 called for the airport to be built in Fairfax County near what is now Burke Lake Park, but protests from residents, as well as the rapid expansion of Washington's suburbs during the time, led to reconsideration of this plan. Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region. After the war, in 1948, the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital. It was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941, a short distance southeast.
ĭulles is a hub for United Airlines and is frequently used by airlines which United has codeshare agreements with, mostly composed of Star Alliance members like Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa.īefore World War II, Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington, on the site now occupied by the Pentagon and its parking lots. Furthermore, it still ranks behind Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in total annual passenger boardings. However, in 2018, Dulles Airport surpassed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in yearly passenger boardings after having fewer passengers since 2015. Dulles overtook Reagan in total enplanements in 2019. Increased domestic travel from Reagan National Airport has eroded some of Dulles's domestic routes. On a typical day, more than 60,000 passengers pass through Dulles to and from more than 125 destinations around the world. 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. Source: Federal Aviation Administration, Passenger traffic
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