Reagan National currently serves 91 nonstop destinations and is a hub for American Airlines.
Planes are required to take unusually complicated paths to avoid restricted and prohibited airspace above sensitive landmarks, government buildings, and military installations in and around Washington, D.C., and comply with some of the tightest noise restrictions in the country. Long distance flights to and from the airport are limited by a perimeter rule which generally prohibits flights longer than 1,250 statute miles (2,010 km) in any direction nonstop, in an effort to send coast-to-coast and overseas traffic to Dulles International Airport, though there are 40 slot exemptions to this rule. MWAA operates the airport with close oversight by the federal government due to its proximity to the national capital. In 1998, Congress passed, and President Bill Clinton signed, a bill renaming it Ronald Reagan National Airport in honor of President Ronald Reagan. A larger second terminal, now known as Terminal 2, opened in 1997. Part of the original terminal is still in use as Terminal 1. The airport opened in 1941 and was originally named Washington National Airport. The airport is 5 miles (8.0 km) from downtown Washington, D.C. the larger is Dulles International Airport about 25 miles (40 km) to the west in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. It is the smaller of two airports owned by the federal government and operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) that serve the Washington metropolitan area around Washington, D.C.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ( IATA: DCA, ICAO: KDCA, FAA LID: DCA), referred to colloquially as National Airport, Reagan, Reagan National, or simply DCA, is an airport in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
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