Comments on: The Secret Story How Washington National Airport Got Ronald Reagan’s Name

By: Both The New Centurion Lounge And Capital One Landing At DC's National Airport Slated To Open In Q2 - View from the Wing

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:06:09 +0000

[…] National Airport is about to become one of the best in the country for lounges. Currently there […]

By: The Hidden Politics of Flight Slots: Inside the Intense Lobbying at D.C. National Airport - View from the Wing

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:00:04 +0000

[…] United Airlines has a hub at Washington Dulles. They don’t want to allow more flights that would compete out of Washington’s National airport. They especially don’t want more flights from National over 1,250 miles – where Dulles airport, which they dominate, has a near-monopoly. So they lobby hard to prevent more and better service from National (also known as Reagan National). […]

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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:06:06 +0000

[…] airport, formally named for Ronald Reagan, is a congested airport. It lacks gate and terminal space. But it’s not really above intended […]

By: Connie Erickson

Connie Erickson — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:17:19 +0000

I found it interesting at the time of renaming the National that an airport built by Franklin Roosevelt and my grandfather during WWII was named after Ronald Reagan who built nothing, created homelessness and destroyed the best education system in the world.

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Lord and Lady Titles at TSA? Not a Good Idea [Roundup] - View from the Wing — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:36:09 +0000

[…] anyone actually care what politician an airport is officially named after? Here’s the secret story of how Washington National got Ronald Reagan’s name. When I fly to Atlanta former mayors William Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson matter to me not at […]

By: Frankntom

Frankntom — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:48:21 +0000

I’ve lived in the DC metro area since the ’60s and will always call it National. It might have been a palatable option if a single local lawmaker has proposed making the name change, but that wasn’t the case. And to name an airport for the man who broke up the ATC union? Insulting to say the least. Of course a few old timers still call BWI Friendship, so…..

By: Gennady

Gennady — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:29:29 +0000

Anyone who doesn’t think it was Reagan who is most responsible for the demise of the USSR & end of the Cold War, has no idea about what Reagan’s election in 1980, and his policies and his stature throughout the 80’s, meant to everybody behind the Iron Curtain. Yes, Gorby was instrumental and showed up just in time; so was Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul. But the USSR could’ve easily survived for many more years if not for the policies of Reagan, his leadership and determination. And the “Evil Empire” was gone.

Take it from someone who lived it…

By: Thing 1

Thing 1 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:14:52 +0000

@Jerry. Keep in mind who decides on the names: It’s politicians naming infrastructure after fellow politicians. Sure, there is always a subset of the general public who push for naming things after their political hero, but I can’t recall any instance where the general public was asked to VOTE on a name change.

Left or right, it’s a few political hacks who get a thrill from naming things after fellow political hacks, all in hopes of future political hacks naming things after them some day.

And that said, yes, it is kind of repulsive.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:47:19 +0000

The American obsession with naming infrastructure after politicians is bizarre.

By: Siva Vayali

Siva Vayali — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:37:25 +0000

As a long time resident of Metro DC area, I still call it National. The Metro map was still using the name Washington National Airport and was changed only few years back. Longtime locals simply go by Dulles, National and Baltimore. I respect renaming public facilities with political leaders, but locals mostly go by the name they are used to call them!