Washington's longest nonstop connection is San Francisco (SFO), 2,436 miles, offered by Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines and 4 other airlines.
Its most distinctive feature is the airspace: to keep aircraft clear of restricted zones over the capital, pilots fly the River Visual approach, banking along the curves of the Potomac with the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial out the left window. A perimeter rule caps most nonstop flights at 1,250 miles.
