It doesn’t happen often these days, but Washington Dulles International Airport outperformed its older sibling in passenger totals in July.
Washington Dulles saw 2,198,132 travelers come and go during the month, compared to 2,063,014 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, according to figures reported Sept. 19 by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
Buoyed by improved performance by the airport’s dominant carrier, United, Washington Dulles saw a 3.9-percent year-over-year increase in total passengers for the month. At Reagan National, where major carrier American posted lower totals (as did Delta and JetBlue), passenger totals for the month were down 2.7 percent from a year before.
