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Originally Posted by LouisianaRush
BWI eclipsed Dulles as the busiest Baltimore-Washington Metro airport a few years ago, due to its location and Southwest hub. The problem with BWI, it is mostly services North America airports and only has a small intercontinental reach. If I want to fly outside of North America, I normally take the train to Newark. It is easier to take the train to NYC than to drive to Dulles.
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Yeah, the problem is how fragmented it is.
Dulles is OK for international, but their domestic flights are horrifically uncompetitive.
Reagan is excellent for domestic flight, but they have no international flights outside of the immediate vicinity.
Baltimore has the cheapest fares by far, but international is horrid and getting there from D.C. is a chore (it's marketed as a Baltimore-Washington airport, but it's 40-50 miles away depending on how traffic choked the highways are and how Google Maps detours you).
Ideally we'd have a much bigger Reagan with international flights. D.C. will have a height limit regardless so the reason for not having a nearby airport doesn't matter anyway. But we instead now have Amazon HQ2 taking up all that bandwidth.
Reagan is too crowded and near capacity for future growth and BWI is too far to be a credible D.C. option outside of when fares are $100 cheaper. So that leaves Dulles, where we still don't have a metro connection to and the Silver Line is like Waiting for Godot.