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A Stagnant Dulles Could Hinder N.Va. Economic Rebound Business, Government, Airport Leaders Ponder New Ways to Accelerate Growth ERIKA JACOBSON MOORE and SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writers
Stephen Shannon, a former local member of the General Assembly, watches as his 5-year-old son, Owen, climbs a tree at the ViVa! Vienna! festival May 24. The festival drew a large crowd; see more photos inside on Page 4. PHOTO BY BRIAN TROMPETER
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With air traffic at Washington Dulles International Airport declining as dominant carrier United scales back and other carriers move service to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, officials with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority are looking for alternate ways to boost the stability at Dulles. “The bottom line is not all the land is being productively used today,” airports authority CEO Jack Potter said at a recent meeting of the Northern Virginia Regional Commission. “We are going to work to see if we can continue to grow non-aviation revenue, starting with land.” The future of that underused property is important to the fiscal health of Dulles because, Potter said, “whenever we make a dollar in a non-aviation act, it goes right to the bottom line to help the aviation program.” In recent times – with the demise of Independence Air in 2006 coupled with the onset of recession two years later – domestic passenger activity at Dulles Airport has fallen, dropping from 18.8 million in 2007 to 15 million in 2013. International passenger counts have continued to grow at Dulles Airport, but Potter
said the domestic travel continues to be a concern. Growth at Arlington-based Reagan National, also run by the airports authority, has come largely at the expense of Dulles. While National is slot-restricted, airlines are using larger aircraft to capture inner-core travelers who may not want to venture to Dulles or to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. While a decade ago Dulles saw almost 5 million more enplanements than National, in 2014 their numbers were within 100,000 of each other. National is expected to surpass Dulles in enplanements from this point forward. But the compact, landlocked airport, with only about 800 acres, is not primed for that increase in use. “The infrastructure at Reagan is going to have to change,” Potter said. Conversely, with its 12,000 acres, Dulles Airport has the capacity now to handle 40 million passengers a year, but only has about half that total passing through its doors. “For a whole host of reasons why. it makes sense to try and put the breaks on the growth at Reagan and really focus on growth at Dulles,” Potter said.
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