United Airlines lobbyists worked with aides to Virginia lawmakers and airport authority employees to orchestrate messaging and strategy in a high-stakes fight against adding more flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Details of behind-the-scenes cooperation were revealed in emails obtained via public records requests by a competing coalition and shared first with Bloomberg Government. The communications, from the second quarter of 2023, offer rare insight into a major lobbying campaign that is at the forefront on Capitol Hill this week as lawmakers consider a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization. That compromise measure would increase the number of flights by five ...