Experts, lawmakers continue to clash over effort to add more flights to DCA

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (staff photo by Jay Westcott)
Virginia’s senators are stepping up efforts to nix a proposal to add five more round-trip flights to Reagan National Airport.
Sen. Tim Kaine — with the support of fellow Virginia Sen. Mark Warner and five other Democratic senators from Maryland, Colorado and Illinois — has proposed to strike the extra flights from a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
“The proposal in the bi