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With Reagan National and Dulles under is authority, as well as a $6 billion rail project linking the latter with the region, the MWAA can't afford to let mismanagement prove detrimental to the future of transport in the region.

The regional authority overseeing one of the largest public works projects in the country is rife with mismanagement, a glaring lack of transparency and lavish spending habits that have included thousand-dollar dinners and a $9,200 plane ticket to Prague, according to a scathing interim report from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s inspector general.

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