Commercial passenger airlines are authorized to make a total of 864 landings and departures from Reagan National from 6 a.m. to midnight each day, or 48 an hour, according to the airport's website. Of those, 64 have been added by Congress since 2000. Local airport authorities have objected to the increases.
The crowded airspace around Washington drew attention last year when Congress debated an aviation safety bill that allowed 10 more flights a day at Reagan National, despite strong objections from Virginia's Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner.
Let those numbers sink in and imagine how crazy it is in that very confined airspace. It has always been about Members of Congress voting to get themselves home quickly on the weekends.
Commercial passenger airlines are authorized to make a total of 864 landings and departures from Reagan National from 6 a.m. to midnight each day, or 48 an hour, according to the airport's website. Of those, 64 have been added by Congress since 2000. Local airport authorities have objected to the increases.
The crowded airspace around Washington drew attention last year when Congress debated an aviation safety bill that allowed 10 more flights a day at Reagan National, despite strong objections from Virginia's Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner.
Let those numbers sink in and imagine how crazy it is in that very confined airspace. It has always been about Members of Congress voting to get themselves home quickly on the weekends.