Overview
- The White House scheduled a Wednesday meeting with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Dulles’ future, and reporting says Trump also heard updated redesign pitches from invited firms.
- Options under consideration include building new terminals, retiring the airport’s people movers, and in some proposals converting Eero Saarinen’s main terminal into a concessions-focused space.
- AECOM, Ferrovial Airports with Grimshaw Architects, and other major teams have submitted concepts in response to a December DOT call that criticized outdated concourses and limited gates.
- Trump has pursued putting his name on the airport, with reports tying the idea to an unsuccessful bid to exchange Gateway tunnel funding relief for support on renaming Dulles and New York Penn Station.
- Any revamp must navigate that Dulles is federally owned but operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which already plans a slower modernization that phases out mobile lounges.