Washington Dulles International Airport
In addition to the new airlines at Dulles, United and other incumbent carriers also expanded service. This resulted in 27.25 million passengers traveling through the airport in 2024, compared with 25.14 million in 2023 – an 8.4 percent increase that also topped 2005’ s record 27.05 million passengers. The new airlines that started service to Dulles this past year are Aeromexico, Avelo, Breeze, Frontier, Sun Country and Swiss International. Notable service increases include Lufthansa assigning a larger plane to its Munich flight for the summer months, from an Airbus A-340 to an Airbus A-380, the biggest commercial aircraft flying today.
Dulles International Airport also continued setting new records for international traffic with an 11 percent increase in 2024 over the prior year, with 10.38 million passengers flying internationally in 2024 versus 9.35 million in 2023. In total, Dulles added 17 new airline routes with 10 of those routes coming from United.
New Dulles 2024 destinations:
Dulles Toll Road Celebrates 40 Years
The Dulles Toll Road was built in 1984 by the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide local access to interchanges between the Capital Beltway( I-495) and Washington Dulles International Airport. The toll road is located in the Dulles Corridor, which also carries the Dulles Airport Access Highway and is the location of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project.
The Virginia Department of Transportation transferred the operation of the toll road to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority on November 1, 2008. The Airports Authority has been the sole operator of the toll road since October 1, 2009. The Airports Authority’ s purpose in operating the toll road includes financing the construction of Metrorail in the corridor using toll road revenue to support debt service on bonds issued to finance the rail construction.
In 2024, the Dulles Toll Road processed over 70 million transactions.
• Anchorage, Alaska
• Greensboro, North Carolina
• Greenville, South Carolina
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Mobile, Alabama
• Morgantown, West Virginia
• New Haven, Connecticut
• Ogdensburg, New York
• Palm Springs, California
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Provo, Utah
• Punta Gorda, Florida
• South Bend, Indiana
• State College, Pennsylvania
• Vero Beach, Florida
• Wilkes-Barre / Scranton, Pennsylvania
• Williamsport, Pennsylvania
As of the end of 2024, Washington Dulles had 43 airlines serving 138 destinations.
Ronald Reagan National Airport
In 2024, 26.29 million passengers traveled through Reagan National. This is a 3.3 percent increase over the 2023 passenger count of 25.45 million. Demand for travel to and from the region and increased airline seat capacity at the airport led to this increase. At of the end of 2024, the airport had eight airlines serving 97 destinations.
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