Washington Dulles Airport

Not Verified | It took me 2 hours to get through customs. This is by far the worst airport I have ever been too. The staff that are supposed to direct the proper lines had no clue of what they were doing. Furthermore, they were arrogant and unfriendly. I would not recommend this airport to anyone.

Not Verified | Fly to Europe and have guests flying on from abroad average of 1 time a month through Dulles. Last time was Wednesday 7/26. Lines for customs went all the way up the escalators. For people living in the US with a visa, there were 2 booths open. In the end it took three hours to get through customs. Have contacted IAD about this several times, nothing changes. It is an insane situation.

✅ Trip Verified | As usual, an unreasonable wait time to go though the arrival process, on 2 (two) manned booths for the visitors queue, a no-brainer considering the queue is 200+ people long.

✅ Trip Verified | I travel regularly for work, and Dulles is a terrible experience to come back to, every single time I arrive. Extremely long queues, majority of booths are unmanned (regardless of the hour of the day), leading to multiple-hour waits, always. The airport and facilites are nice, but it is all ruined by the wait.

✅ Trip Verified | After a 7.5 hour flight from London arriving at this airport was a very pleasant experience. It looks like they are exclusive to United. Customs was very easy as they had plenty of global entry terminals, coming in from an international flight you have to pick up your luggage and in the same room that you are transiting through give them back for your next flight. I do have to mention that security was a little bit slow and I waited in line for TSA for almost an hour. Everyone was very friendly, courteous, and genuine which made the experience not bad. I really like this airport and I would love to transit through it again.

❌ Not Verified | Absolutely terrible immigration wait. I have travelled extensively and never waited anywhere near to this amount of time. My wait was 1.5hrs. I am picking up a friend today. She arrived 2.5hrs ago and is still standing in line! Arriving before 3pm and not leaving until after 6pm is disgusting! Dulles airport, this is a shambles!! Get more staff and stop letting the capital city of your country down!! Disgraceful.

❌ Not Verified | This airport and it's TSA are absolutely horrible. And they never have enough people. My most recent experience had me waiting 1.5hrs in customs and leaving 45min In security then the one gentleman told me I wasn't there because the line is 14 mins. Well if that was the case my whole flight wouldn't have been on the plan waiting for me to leave so they could close the boarding gate. I asked 3 different people could they help me because I was going to miss my flight, there was one young lady was not rude but frank and the other two personnel just looked at me and dismissed what I was asking being completely rude with the responses. This airport is garbage.

❌ Not Verified | The worst lines for security, they only had four open. I waited one hour and 45 minutes to get through security. I missed my flight and now I am waiting 4 hours for my next flight. I am all about security and our safety they should have staffed properly for the amount of passengers traveling on Mother's Day.

❌ Not Verified | This airport has the worst security line organization of any airport I have flown through. Because of the disorganization some wait over two hours while others wait under 30 minutes. There is no rhyme or reason for what they are doing. Avoid flying out of this airport at all costs!

✅ Trip Verified | Nice airport in general, with clear indications but strange safety procedures on departure: changing instructions, first to remove shoes, belts, etc, followed a few minutes later that there is now a lighter procedure, with limited checks, all with a lot of shouting. Also; the shuttles going to the different gates do not operate correctly: doors for passengers boarding and doors for passengers leaving the shuttles should not open simultaneously, as this allows you to bypass security. Fast immigration on entering; on leaving, special lane for priority passengers to check ID, but then common line for security.