NOV 8, 8:22 AM

DCA’s New Security Halls Open Tuesday. Here’s How To Get To Your Plane

Jordan Pascale https://twitter.com/jwpascale

Passengers will see a new way through security at {Washington} National Airport starting Tuesday at 4 a.m. It launches as air traveler traffic is picking up to nearly 30,000 passengers a day at DCA and that’s expected to increase with the busy holiday season just weeks away.

The two new 50,000-square-foot screening areas were needed because passenger traffic (before the pandemic) was 60% above the designed capacity for Terminals B/C.

The upgrade is part of the $1 billion Project Journey, which also added a new 14-gate concourse that opened in April.

“To say the least, things were tight,” Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority CEO Jack Potter said at a ribbon-cutting last month.

The current setup has 20 security lanes spread out over TeHere’s a map of the new configuration.rminals B and C, but the two new security halls will have 13 lanes in the north building and 10 lanes in the south building. There’s room to add five more lanes if necessary.

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Here’s a map of the new configuration.



Here’s an FAQ on how to navigate the new security process.

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