Dulles, located in northern Virginia, is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from downtown Washington and run by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which also operates Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Dulles is the primary international airport serving the region, although Baltimore Washington International Airport, which is farther away than Dulles, also offers overseas flights. Trump said in December that Dulles needs to be redesigned because “it’s not a good airport.” He nonetheless praised Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and designer of the airport’s main terminal. “We’re going to turn that around and we’re going to make Dulles airport — serving Washington and Virginia, Maryland, etc.