Washington Dulles International Airport
Washington Dulles International Airport
Washington Dulles International Airport (/ˈdʌlɪs/
DUL-iss) (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD, FAA LID: IAD) is an international airport in
the eastern United States, located in Loudoun and Fairfax counties in Virginia,
26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Washington, D.C.
Opened in 1962, it is named after John Foster
Dulles (1888–1959), the 52nd Secretary of State who served under
President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Dulles main terminal is a well-known
landmark designed by Eero Saarinen. Operated by the Metropolitan Washington
Airports Authority, Dulles Airport occupies 13,000 acres (20.3 sq mi; 52.6 km2)
straddling the Loudoun-Fairfax line. 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. The airport serves the
Washington metropolitan area.
Dulles is one of the three major
airports in the larger Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area with more than 21
million passengers a year. 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. On a
typical day, more than 60,000 passengers pass through Dulles to and from more
than 125 destinations around the world. Dulles Airport in 2018 surpassed Ronald Reagan
Washington National Airport (DCA) in yearly passenger boardings after having
fewer passengers ever since 2015. However, Dulles Airport still ranks behind
Baltimore–Washington International Airport (BWI) in total annual passenger
boardings, despite being a larger facility with more gates.
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