Washington Ronald Reagan National Airport is the older of the two major airports in the area, commencing operations in 1941 as Washington National Airport. Dulles opened later and was designated as ...

Air traffic control at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) American Airlines Chief Executive Robert Isom said Flight 5342 was “on an otherwise ...

While the American Airlines flight was in its final stretch, the control tower asked its pilots to pivot their course from Runway 1, National Airport’s most commonly used arrivals runway, to an ...