Talk:Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

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[edit] Long-distance flights

Is there a citation for this statement: "Because of limited gate availability and local noise limitations, almost all flights are to destinations within 2000 km (1250 miles)."? What does the distance of the flight have to do with noise level or gate availability? My understanding was that the limited number of long-distance flights was due to some strange political considerations and Congressional oversight. Can anyone clarify things? --Polynova 06:58, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

As far as I can tell from the MWAA site, "gate availability" had nothing to do with it except under the more general umbrella of overcrowding. I rejiggered the language. -choster 01:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In answer to Polynova's question: If longer flights were allowed, they would likely be serviced by larger, noisier aircraft. Senator John McCain tried to get this restriction removed, and opposition cited that as the reason for maintaining it. Eventually Alaska Airlines was granted an exemption to this rule. 75.70.123.215 (talk) 23:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] History

I'm not sure on all the details, but I think recent news is that a private plane was allowed to land at RRWN Aiport. Should someone update the page? PirateMonkey 20:50, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

It says they're not allowed "with rare exceptions" - does that cover it? - DavidWBrooks 21:55, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Actually, that's no longer true; a certain number of general aviation aircraft are allowed to land each day now, as long as they have an armed air marshall on board at their expense. —Cleared as filed. 11:55, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinks

My comment is on the DCA at night image, It is Hain's Point, not Gravelly Point. That park is to the North of the Airport while the picture is of the airport looking across the river from the city

[edit] half hour

Can we add something about the rule that for incoming flights, all passengers must remain seated for the last half our of the flight, and our outgoing flights, all passengers must remain seated for the first half hour? --Phil Kirlin 20:59, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

That rule was eliminated several months ago.- choster 23:10, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
No kidding. Well, I guess I'm in for a more pleasant flight home for Thanksgiving this year.  :) --Phil Kirlin 01:00, 21 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Name controversy

Nothing about the controversy over the partisan naming of the airport for a controversial political figure? {59.121.193.141 12:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)}

If there are no sources for the "not without controversy" regarding the naming of the airport, AND there is not any sourcing to differentiate the legitimacy of this renaming from any other renaming, then this article needs to be corrected in the interest of neutrality. This article should either:

  1. use DCA throughout the entire article OR
  2. use National in reference to the airport before the name change and Reagan in reference to the airport after the name change. The name change is still official regardless of what people would like to believe.

To refer to it as Reagan throughout would show lack of neutrality in favor of the new name and in the current state show a lack of neutrality against the new name. -- Tony 03:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] International Airport?

Because Reagan airport does not have customs and immigration facilities, it only has flights to a few "precleared" international cities. So, can it really be considered an international airport? Given it's name as "National" Airport, I doubt it. —Gintar77 04:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Good question. I am making a wild guess here, but this sounds like Orlando Sanford International Airport. There is only one flight there that heads to the Carribean, which is outside the country, but that is the one reason the airport is considered "international." So, yes, I do believe that the airport should be called "international." (I need to verify there are flights to other areas of the world, to see if this makes things different of my conclusion.)--Press208 01:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivial Fact

I found this at www.airnav.com under KDCA. Did you know that some crews at the airport mistaken Runway 15 for Runway 19, and vice versa? I know that sounds crazy, but I can see why. Those runways look exactly the same in the picture in the info-box. --Press208 01:10, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Someone could make a trivia section out of this article and add this fact in. If there are no objections, I will carry on with this task. --Press208 19:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)