City pair City pair In commercial aviation, a city pair is defined as a pair of departure (origin) and arrival (destination) airport codes on a flight itinerary. A given city pair may be a single non-stop flight segment, a direct flight with one or more stops, or an itinerary with connecting flights (multiple segments). The city pair, IAD-LHR would consist of flights and/or multi-leg itineraries that originate at Washington-Dulles airport and terminate at London-Heathrow airport. The city pair, NYC-TYO would consist of flights and/or multi-leg itineraries that originate at any New York airport (New York-JFK, Newark-Liberty or New York-LaGuardia) and terminate at
Washington Dulles International Airport Prince George's County, Maryland into an airport. The current site was selected by President Eisenhower in 1958; the Dulles name was chosen by Eisenhower's aviation advisor Pete Quesada, who later served as the first head of the Federal Aviation Administration. As a result of the site selection, the unincorporated, largely African-American community of Willard, which once stood in the airport's current footprint, was demolished, and 87 property owners had their holdings condemned. Dulles was also built over a lesser known airport named Blue Ridge Airport, chartered in 1938 by the U.S.. The airport was Loudoun County's first official airport consisting