‘The Airport Said Don’t Do It. And They Did It.’ - POLITICO

For years, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority warned Congress that the region's airports were at capacity, DeFazio said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine. But their pleas for restraint fell short among lawmakers, who voted to add more flights to an airport already struggling with its heavy load and a shortage of air traffic controllers caused by previous government shutdowns and pandemic-era hits to its workforce...

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