Originally Posted by
orbitmic
Yes, a tragic system which I fear will remain for as long as that (silly in the first place) airport is in use. I have more than occasionally chosen to fly indirect into DCA when needing to go to DC as IAD is an airport I dislike for so many reasons.
That's something I do too, though more due to the fact that I work in downtown Washington and so using the world's most ludicrously over-spec'd metro system makes life so easy from DCA. In which case connect ideally via CLT or JFK T8. DCA is a great airport, so long as the weather is nice.