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Old 02-01-2025, 11:59 AM
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Reagan has been a busy airport for many years. In the late 1960s I worked as a Patent Examiner on the 10th floor of a building in Crystal City. My office overlooked the airport and it was busy even back then. Dulles went into service in 1962 but members of Congress wanted to keep Reagan open as it was very convenient for them. They even had their own private parking lot there - probably still do. During Commencement in June of 1970 on the Georgetown campus lawn it was very difficult to hear the speakers as planes taking off from Reagan (National back then) kept flying over.

Reagan is the 26th busiest airport in the US, according to Top 100 US Airports FlightRadar24 | Plane Flight Tracker (which tracks in real time). The real problem isn't that Reagan is so busy, but that the Washington/NY corridor is the busiest air space in the USA.

Washington DC itself, probably being the most congested (& complicated) in the world.