Airport Architecture

Airport Architecture

Much ado about the mobile lounge

Eero Saarinen's mobile lounges at Dulles are in the Trump administration's sights

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Edward Russell
Nov 13, 2025
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A mobile lounge and a United Airlines 1970s heritage livery at Concourse D at Dulles.

After Eero Saarinen’s swooping jet-age main terminal, few things about Washington Dulles International Airport are more recognizable — and more divisive — than the mobile lounge.

These “moon buggies” that debuted with the airport in November 1962 continue to whisk travel…

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