This major US airport set a passenger record in 2022
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport saw nearly 24M total passengers
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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, set a passenger record in 2022.
The airport's numbers edged above 2019, according to numbers from a new Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority report.
It saw nearly 24 million passengers, an increase of more than 70% from 2021. The data showed a total of 23,961,442 passengers from January to December 2022. That's compared with 14,044,824 a year ago.
A Delta Air Lines Inc. jet taxis at Ronald Reagan International Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. (Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
It also reportedly marked a 0.4% increase over 2019, according to the Washington Business Journal.
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View of the control tower at Ronald Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C., on Independence Day July 4, 2018. ((EVA HAMBACH/AFP via Getty Images) / Getty Images)
While Washington Dulles International Airport – in Dulles, Virginia – did not quite hit 2019 levels, it had more passengers than officials had anticipated.
That airport had a grand total of 21,376,896 passengers in 2022 – an increase of more than 42% over last year.
An airplane takes off at Dulles International Airport on November 17, 2022, in Dulles, Virginia. ((Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images) / Getty Images)
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It also had 15,006,955 total passengers in 2021.
Dulles celebrated its 60th anniversary last year.
This story has been updated with information from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.