Dulles Airport, which opened in 1962 and serves more than 23 million travelers every year, is one of three key air hubs serving the nation’s capital.
President Donald Trump said on Dec. 2 that his administration will start the process of reconstructing Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia.
During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump highlighted his administration’s efforts to rebuild the U.S. air traffic control system, including upgrading copper communication lines to fiber optics and replacing old, analog radar systems with new digital platforms.
That work, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, is a third of the way complete.
Duffy and Trump expect to finish the project by the end of the president’s term.
“We’re also going to rebuild Dulles Airport, because it’s not a good airport. It should be a great airport, and it’s not a good airport at all,” Trump said. “It was incorrectly designed with a good building. Actually, it’s got a beautiful terminal.”
The president praised Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect who designed the airport’s main terminal.
“Saarinen was the architect, one of the greatest architects in the world at the time, a great architect, and so they have a great building and a bad airport,” Trump added.
“But we’re going to turn that around, and we’re going to make Dulles airport—serving Washington, Virginia, Maryland, etc.—we’re going to make that into something really spectacular. We have an amazing plan for it.”
Dulles Airport, which opened in 1962 and serves more than 23 million travelers every year, is one of three key air hubs that serve the nation’s capital.
It does so along with Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in Baltimore, Maryland.
By Jacob Burg
