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The area has enough traffic to support three airports, and all three (DCA/IAD/BWI) carry between 26-27 million passengers a year, each. I don't think you could
by kube-system 2y ago
The area has enough traffic to support three airports, and all three (DCA/IAD/BWI) carry between 26-27 million passengers a year, each. I don't think you could close one of them without some significant disruption to service.
Travel in/out of IAD from DC can take an hour, which is obviously why people there prefer DCA. And the flights there are all short-haul anyway, so many are the types of flights people are doing on short turnarounds.
- gymbeaux 2y agoWell that settles it then, military aircraft will have to just turn on their ADS-B transponders when within X miles of a commercial/public airport
- janeerie 2y agoThey're not all short haul. I can do a direct to DCA from SLC.
- kube-system 2y agoThere are a handful of exceptions (of which SLC is one), but broadly the airport is legally limited to destinations within a 1250 mile perimeter to keep long haul traffic at IAD/BWI.