DC metro area getting another commercial airport?
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...rport/3394056/
https://wjla.com/resources/media2/or...3f6f.image.jpg City Council approves plan for commercial flights at Manassas Regional Airport Quote:
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We shall see. Manassas is the type of airport that Breeze and, especially, Avelo fly out of. Avelo has focus cities in Wilmington, DE, and New Haven, which are cities on their own but adjacent to much larger urban areas.
There is an Amtrak and VRE station adjacent to the Manassas airport. I looked and it is $8 and the trip takes 50 minutes from Washington Union Station to Manassas. There are approximately 1.2 million residents who live in Loudoun, Prince William, Fauquier, and Stafford Counties, for whom, this airport would be very convenient. With Avelo, on the East Coast, they have focused on price sensitive travelers seeking to go to leisure destinations. It seems like there is nearly unlimited demand for flights to Florida destinations from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. It seems like half the population of that region picks up and goes to Florida in the winter. For whatever reason, the DC region doesn't see this mass migration to Florida in the winter that the New York-area sees. Perhaps it is because our winters are shorter and milder. |
Also, Reagan National airport is capacity constrained. If you are in DC or an inner suburb and want cheap flights, you have to go to BWI (Dulles doesn't particularly have a lot of low cost or ultra-low cost carriers). If you are going to either BWI or Dulles, you might as well go to Manassas, as it is not much farther. Amtrak to BWI is about 35 minutes and then you have to take the shuttle bus to the terminals. I think the Silver line is about 45 minutes - 1 hour to Dulles.
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