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Dulles International Airport (IAD) is a public airport in Dulles, Virginia,
26 miles (41.6 km) west of the central business district of Washington, D.C.
The airport serves the Baltimore-Washington-Northern Virginia metropolitan
area centered on the District of Columbia. It is named after John Foster
Dulles, Secretary of State under 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
IAD occupies 11,830 acres (47.9 km2) of land,[3] straddling the border of
Fairfax County and Loudoun County, Virginia.
It is located within two unincorporated communities, Chantilly and Dulles.
The IAD airport is west of Herndon and southwest of Sterling. Washington
Dulles Airport IAD is the largest airport in the Washington metropolitan
area, and is ranked as one of the nation's busiest airports, handling over
23 million passengers a year. Daily, more than 60,000 passengers depart
Washington Dulles IAD to more than 125 destinations around the world.
Washington Dulles is the busiest airport in Virginia as well as the busiest
in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.
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The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor. The
airport was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy on November 17, 1962. Its
original name, Dulles International Airport, was changed in 1984 to
Washington Dulles International Airport.The main terminal was designed in
1958 by famed Finnish architect Eero Saarinen and it is highly regarded for
its graceful beauty, suggestive of flight. In the 1990s, the main terminal
at Dulles was reconfigured to allow more space between the front of the
building and the ticket counters. Additions at both ends of the main
terminal more than doubled the structure's length. The original terminal at
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan was modeled after the
Saarinen terminal at Dulles.
The original design included a landscaped man-made lake to collect
rainwater, a low-rise hotel, and a row of office buildings along the north
side of the main parking lot. The design also included a two-level road in
front of the terminal to separate arrival and departure traffic and a
federally owned limited access highway connecting the terminal to the
Capital Beltway (I-495) located approximately 17 miles (27 km) to the east.
(Eventually, the highway system grew to include a parallel toll road to
handle commuter traffic and an extension to connect to I-66). When the
access road was designed, it featured a wide median strip to facilitate the
construction of a passenger rail line, which is expected to be completed in
2016.
[edit] Notable operations and milestones
* The first flight at Dulles was an Eastern Air Lines Super Electra
turboprop arriving from Newark International Airport in New Jersey on
November 19, 1962.
* Dulles was initially considered to be a white elephant due to its limited
flight destinations in the 1960s and its 26-mile (42 km) distance from
downtown Washington, but the airport has steadily grown at the same time
that Virginian suburbs have grown along the Dulles Technology Corridor and
the Capital Beltway. To promote growth, perimeter and slot restrictions
placed on flights arriving at and departing from Ronald Reagan Washington
National Airport have meant that most long-distance flights to the area must
operate at Dulles.
* The era of jumbo jets in international aviation began on January 15, 1970,
when First Lady Pat Nixon christened a Pan Am Boeing 747 at Dulles in the
presence of Pan Am chairman Najeeb Halaby. Rather than use a traditional
champagne bottle christening, red, white, and blue water was sprayed on the
aircraft. The first Boeing 747 flight on Pan Am from Dulles was to London
Heathrow.
* Another milestone in aviation took place on May 24, 1976, when supersonic
air travel commenced between Dulles and Europe. On that day, a British
Airways Concorde flew in from London and an Air France Concorde arrived from
Paris. The two sleek aircraft lined up at Dulles nose-to-nose for a photo
opportunity.
* On June 13, 1983, the Space Shuttle Enterprise "landed" at Dulles atop a
modified Boeing 747 after completing a European tour and prior to returning
to Edwards AFB. In 1985, the Enterprise was placed in a storage hangar near
Runway 12/30 pending the construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. It
has since been moved into the museum.
* In 1990, a United States Senate joint resolution to change the name of
Washington Dulles to Washington Eisenhower was proposed by Senator Dole, but
never passed. * When the SR-71 was retired by the military in 1990, one was
flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale,
California to Dulles, where it was placed in a special storage building
pending the construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, setting a
coast-to-coast speed record at an average 2,124 mph (3,418 km/h). The trip
took 64 minutes.
* The inaugural flight of the Boeing 777 in commercial service, a United
Airlines flight from London Heathrow, landed at Dulles in 1995.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
* In December 2003, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum opened the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles. The museum annex houses an Air France
Concorde, the Enola Gay B-29, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, the Boeing
367-80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707, and other famous
aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on
the National Mall.
* On April 19, 2006, United Express began moving its operations from
Concourse G to Concourse A. The latter was formerly used by the now-defunct
Independence Air, which ceased operations on January 6, 2006. The transition
was completed on May 1, 2006. Concourse G was later demolished.
* The launch of low-cost carrier Independence Air in 2004 propelled IAD from
being the 24th busiest airport in the United States to 4th, and one of the
top 30 busiest in the world. Independence Air ceased operations in January
2006. Southwest Airlines began service at Dulles in fall 2006. In 2006,
Dulles ranked 29th in 2006 in traffic movements. In 2007, 24.7 million
passengers passed through the airport.
* On June 6, 2011, Air France began service using the Airbus A380 on its
Paris Charles de Gaulle airport to Washington Dulles International Airport
route.
Planned development
Main Terminal Station of Aerotrain
Since the 1980s, the original design, which had mobile lounges meet each
plane, was not well-suited to Dulles' role as a hub airport. Instead,
midfield concourses were added to allow passengers to walk between
connecting flights without visiting the main terminal. Mobile lounges were
still used for international flights and to transport passengers between the
midfield concourses and the main terminal. An underground tunnel (consisting
of a passenger walkway and moving sidewalks) which links the main terminal
and concourse B was opened in 2004. The Metropolitan Washington Airports
Authority (MWAA) began a renovation program for the airport, to include a
new security mezzanine to help relieve the heavily congested security lines
that are familiar to passengers traveling through the airport.
A new train system, dubbed AeroTrain and developed by Mitsubishi, began in
2010 to transport passengers between the concourses and the main terminal.
The system, which uses rubber tires and travels along a fixed underground
guideway is similar to the people mover systems at Singapore Changi Airport,
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and Denver International
Airport. The train is intended to replace the mobile lounges, which many
passengers found crowded and inconvenient. The initial phase includes the
main terminal station, a permanent Concourse A station, a permanent
Concourse B station, a permanent midfield concourse station (with access to
the current temporary C concourse via a tunnel with moving walkways), and a
maintenance facility. Mobile lounges continue to service the D Concourse
from both the main terminal and the A Concourse. Mobile lounges will
continue to transport international arrivals to the IAB facility. Dulles has
stated that the wait time for a train does not exceed four minutes, compared
to the average 15-minute wait and travel time for mobile lounges.
Also, under the development plan, future phases would see the addition of
several new midfield concourses and a new south terminal. A fourth runway
(parallel to the existing runways 1 and 19 L&R) opened in 2008, and
development plans include a fifth runway to parallel the existing runway
12-30[18] An expansion of the B concourse, which is used by many low cost
airlines as well as international arrivals, has been completed, and the
Midfield Concourses C and D mainly house United Airlines, and will
eventually be knocked down to make room for a more ergonomic building.
Because Concourses C and D are temporary concourses, the only way to get to
those concourses is via moving walkway from the Concourse C station which is
built in the location of the future gates and Concourse D by mobile lounge
from the main terminal
Statistics
In 2010, United Airlines maintained its East Coast hub at Dulles and handled
56.7% of scheduled air carrier passengers at the airport. JetBlue handled
6.8% of scheduled air carrier passengers, and American Airlines is the
airport's third largest carrier in terms of tickets sold and handled
5.4%.[20] On a typical day, Dulles sees 1,000 to 1,200 flight
operations.Dulles International served 23.7 million passengers in 2010, a
2.3 percent increase over 2009
More international and low-cost airlines are commencing service at
Washington Dulles, and traffic in 2010 is rebounding from the loss in
passengers due to the late-2000s recession and the September 11, 2001
attacks. In summer 2010 Washington Dulles served 49,000 more passengers than
for the same month of the previous year. Nonetheless, even before the United
States economic recession started, international passengers have continued
to grow, which prompted the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to
expand the international arrivals building to handle 2,400 passengers per
hour
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