Washington Dulles International Airport passengers. Dulles was once assigned the airport code DIA, with each letter corresponding to the initials of Dulles International Airport. However, when handwritten, it was often misread as DCA, the code for nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was later revised to IAD to avoid confusion. The airport's terminal complex consists of a main terminal and two midfield terminal buildings: Concourses A/B and C/D. The entire terminal complex has 123 gates and 16 hardstand locations from which passengers can board or disembark using the airport's plane mate vehicles. Conceived in early planning sessions in 1959, Dulles is one of
Garden City Regional Airport Garden City Regional Airport Garden City Regional Airport is nine miles southeast of Garden City, in Finney County, Kansas. It is served by one scheduled airline, subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program at a cost of $2,919,026 (per year). The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a "primary commercial service" airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 11,453 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 10,014 in 2009, and 10,155 in 2010. During World War II the United States Army Air Forces used Garden City Airport as a training airfield