El día 20 de Enero, coincidiendo con la proclamación de Barack Obama como presidente de los Estados Unidos, se espera un incremento del 20% en los aeropuertos cercanos a Washington, tal y como menciona AVWeb.

Incluso se usarán áreas de rodaje para el parking de las aeronaves y por supuesto, se han establecido restricciones en el espacio aéreo asociado a los lugares donde se realizarán las celebraciones.

Os dejo con el artículo completo que aparece en AVWeb:

Unprecedented crowds are expected in Washington, D.C., next Tuesday for the presidential inauguration events, and that will lead to unprecedented air traffic problems, especially on Wednesday. “People will be trickling in over the weekend, and all coming out on the 21st,” Tad Hutcheson, a spokesman for AirTran Airways, told the Chicago Tribune. AirTran and other airlines have boosted traffic into Washington’s two main airports by 20 percent, and Delta is planning to fly Boeing 767s into Reagan National, the closest airport to the Mall, which usually accommodates smaller airliners and private jets. At Dulles, Baltimore-Washington International, and several local GA fields, taxiways will be used as parking areas for transient aircraft.

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