Free Miss Saberi was greeted by friends and well wishers on her arrival at Washington Dulles International Airport Saberi had worked as a freelance journalist for several organizations Tags: Washington Dulles International Airport View |
Washington Dulles International Airport IAD is located in Chantilly VA on 12 000 acres of land 26 miles from downtown Washington DC The Main Terminal opened in 1962 and was Tags: Washington Dulles International Airport View |
Washington Dulles International Airport Airport codesIADKIADIAD is a public airport located 25 miles (40 km) west of the central business district of Washington, D.C., in Dulles, Virginia (Loudoun County (Loudoun County, Virginia) and Fairfax County (Fairfax County, Virginia), Virginia, United States). It serves the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area (Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area). The airport is named after John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Dulles main terminal is a well-known landmark designed by Eero Saarinen.
Dulles airport occupies convert11830acrekm2 of land, straddling the border of Fairfax County (Fairfax County, Virginia) and Loudoun County (Loudoun County, Virginia), Virginia. It is located within two unincorporated communities, Chantilly (Chantilly, Virginia) and Dulles (Dulles, Virginia). The airport is west of Herndon (Herndon, Virginia) and southwest of Sterling (Sterling, Virginia). Dulles airport is operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
Dulles is served by nearly a dozen U.S.-flagged carriers and nearly two dozen international carriers. Airlines serving Dulles provide non-stop service to over 80 domestic destinations and to over 40 international destinations. United Airlines maintains its East Coast (East Coast of the United States) hub at Dulles and handles 62% of passengers at the airport. JetBlue handles 6% of passengers, and American Airlines is the airports third largest carrier and handles 4%. The airport has 143 gates and 14 hard stand locations from which passengers can board or disembark using the airports trademark PlaneMate airfield vehicles. On a typical day, Dulles sees 1,000 to 1,200 flight operations.
The airport is also home to the German Luftwaffe, who have a training facility at the airport, in addition to serving as a stopover point for German crews heading to Holloman AFB in New Mexico.Citation neededdate=April 2010
Image-width: 200
Image2: View of IAD from airplane a.jpg
Image2-width: 200
Iata: IAD
Icao: KIAD
Faa: IAD
Type: Public
Owner: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
City-served: Washington Metropolitan Area
Birth Location: Dulles, Virginia, Dulles, Virginia
Hub: United Airlines
Elevation-f: 313
Elevation-m: 95
Website: www.mwaa.com/dulles/dulles.htm
Number on List: 1L/19R
R1-length-f: 9,400
R1-length-m: 2,865
R1-surface: Concrete
Number on List: 1C/19C
R2-length-f: 11,500
R2-length-m: 3,505
R2-surface: Concrete
Number on List: 1R/19L
R3-length-f: 11,500
R3-length-m: 3,505
R3-surface: Concrete
Number on List: 12/30
R4-length-f: 10,500
R4-length-m: 3,200
R4-surface: Concrete
Number on List: ''12R/30L''
R5-length-f: ''10,500''
R5-length-m: ''3,200''
R5-surface: Planned
Footnotes: Source: Federal Aviation Administration