Dulles ramps up airport expansion work

Virgin Business
Courtney Mabeus-Brown
01 Jun 2026

After a record-breaking 29 million passengers traveled through Washington Dulles International Airport in 2025, the airport appears poised to raise the bar once more.

“It looks like we’re going to be over 30 million this year, and we’re prepared for that,” says Richard Golinowski, Dulles’ airport manager.

Helping matters is the 435,000-square-foot Concourse E scheduled to open Sept. 30. The concourse will add up to 14 gates serviced by United Airlines, which has a hub at Dulles.

Concourse E is part of a $7 billion overhaul of the sprawling airport, located 25 miles outside Washington, D.C. It comes as Dulles and Reagan Washington National Airport, which are overseen by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, have come under federal scrutiny...

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