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Structural system

Load-bearing sub-system of a building or object in structural engineering

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March 11 2025	Dulles International Airport Air China began serving IAD with the Boeing 747-8i from Beijing, expanding its previous twice-weekly Boeing 777-300ER service.
2024	Dulles International Airport Set an all-time passenger record with 27.25 million passengers, breaking the previous record from 2005.
August 2024	Dulles International Airport Construction on Concourse E began, with an expected cost between $500 million and $800 million, seeking $230 million in grants from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.
January 2024	Dulles International Airport Began tracking busiest domestic routes, with Denver, Colorado emerging as the top destination with 576,000 passengers served by Southwest and United airlines.
January 19 2024	Dulles International Airport Southern Airways Express Flight 246 made a hard emergency landing on the Loudoun County Parkway just after takeoff from Dulles International Airport, with all 7 people surviving without casualties.
2023	Dulles International Airport Recorded busiest international routes, with London-Heathrow as the top international destination, serving 810,478 passengers via British Airways, United, and Virgin Atlantic airlines.
2023	Dulles International Airport Construction begins on a 100 MW solar power facility with battery and bus charging equipment, designed to be the largest airport-based solar and battery development in the U.S.
September 7 2023	Dulles International Airport Capital One opened its second airport lounge at Dulles International Airport, located in the main terminal beyond the TSA PreCheck checkpoint.
November 15 2022	Dulles International Airport Washington Metro's Silver Line extension opens, providing rail access to the airport.
April 2022	Dulles International Airport The Airport Authority published plans for a 14-gate Concourse E to replace outdoor boarding areas at Concourse A.
2021	Dulles International Airport Southern Airways Express moved their East Coast hub from BWI to Dulles, planning to operate flights between Dulles and small airports in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
2020	Dulles International Airport United Airlines dominated Dulles International Airport's market share, accounting for 70.42% of enplanements during this calendar year, significantly outperforming other airlines.
2019	Dulles International Airport Overtook Reagan National Airport in total enplanements.
2019	Lift slab construction Northminster Car Park in Peterborough, England, constructed using lift slab technique, was found to be unsafe and beyond economic repair.
May 15 2019	TWA Flight Center The TWA Hotel officially opened, completing the conversion of the original TWA Flight Center head house into a hotel.
2018	Dulles International Airport Surpassed Reagan National Airport in yearly passenger boardings for the first time since 2015.
May 16 2018	Dulles International Airport Volaris Costa Rica launched flights to Dulles, becoming the first international low-cost carrier to serve the airport.
2017	TWA Flight Center The TWA Flight Center was adaptively repurposed as part of the new TWA Hotel, preserving its iconic architectural design.
December 2016	TWA Flight Center Construction of the TWA Hotel began, with structures on either side of the head house being demolished while preserving the head house itself.
July 2015	TWA Flight Center New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed that the Saarinen building would become part of the TWA Hotel.
April 2015	TWA Flight Center The Wall Street Journal reported that JetBlue and a hotel developer were negotiating to turn the head house into a hotel.
October 2 2014	Dulles International Airport British Airways began using the Airbus A380 on flights from London–Heathrow to Dulles.
April 17 2012	Dulles International Airport The Space Shuttle Discovery was ferried to Dulles mounted on a NASA 747-100 for installation at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
June 6 2011	Dulles International Airport Dulles received its first Airbus A380 flights when Air France introduced the aircraft on its nonstop route from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
2010	Dulles International Airport AeroTrain system developed by Mitsubishi begins operations to transport passengers between concourses and main terminal.

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