Trump moves to remake Dulles Airport, weighing redesign proposals

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The administration is considering plans that include building a new terminal and doing away with the people movers.

President Donald Trump is personally driving efforts to remake Dulles International Airport — and his plans go far beyond trying to put his name on it.

Trump earlier this month hosted about a half-dozen infrastructure and construction companies in the Oval Office, with executives taking turns pitching the president and Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy on their proposals to overhaul the Washington-area airport, according to four people familiar with the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. The companies — which included AECOM, one of the firms working on the president’s White House ballroom project — laid out ideas to change Dulles’s layout, build new terminals and do away with the airport’s sometimes-notorious shuttles known as people movers, the people said.

Trump will convene companies again Wednesday to hear updated proposals for redesigning one of the country’s most prominent gateways, the people said, as he seeks to fast-track changes to a facility he has derided as “badly designed.”

About 27 million passengers, including 10 million international passengers, travel through Dulles per year, with passengers rating the airport relatively poorly compared with other large airports. Trump officials began discussing changes to the airport last year as part of the administration’s push for a “golden age of travel” and initiative to address the region’s infrastructure.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/25/trump-weighs-remake-dulles-airport/