S 1933 118th Congress Senate Transportation and Public Works

DCA Act

Introduced: June 13, 2023 Introduced by: Warnock, Raphael G. Democratic · Georgia See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Jun 13, 2023

Introduced in Senate

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Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Direct Capital Access Act or the DCA Act

This bill increases the number of daily round-trip flights allowed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).

Specifically, this bill adds 56 new slots at DCA to allow for 28 additional daily round-trip flights. (Airlines flying to and from DCA are subject to slot and perimeter rules set by federal law and regulation. The slot rules determine the total number of flight slots that can be handled in a given time period. In addition, a statutory perimeter rule limits nonstop flights to a 1,250-mile radius unless they are granted an exemption in law.)

Current law limits DCA to a maximum of 67 hourly slots for flights both within- and beyond-perimeter; a round-trip flight serving DCA requires two slots (or a slot pair). Of those slots, 40 daily slots are exempt from the perimeter rule.

Under the bill's slot increase, operations at DCA may not increase by more than eight flights per hour.

What's happening now June 13, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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