Riding on the MOBILE LOUNGE at IAD

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Riding on the "Mobile Lounge" at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD).
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[@HollyWV]

The people movers always remind me of something that would be roaming around on Star Wars 😂😂

[@rossginn1171]

I’m up and ready!! Coffee and AVL ,,,,,,, Lol the mobile lounge just as you recorded years ago 👍🏻

[@antoniusyoutube]

Thanks Kevin. Always good to know the workings in and out of the airport.

[@julianedelsonkatz7206]

Looks like a cool ride across the airport from the gate area to the main terminal with lots of airplanes in the view! Very cool Kevin for you filming the mobile lounge when you arrived yesterday from LAX! Enjoying all your great streaming from IAD and DCA this week in Washington DC!

[@CondorGreenStripes]

Loving the people mover most of the ground tour outside to see the planes! That was a nice United Airlines Lounge at Dukles! Brilliant work Kevin!

[@peterwalsh1357]

United are great people to fly with @Somil Bhandari and would not hesitate to book with them again! They upgraded our seats last time at no extra cost. 👍

[@CondorGreenStripes]

@@peterwalsh1357 Yes of course, United Airlines are the great flyers for people and seat will upgraded without extra cost. 😀👍

[@cherylreichardt]

I love this people mover alot mostly because you get a ground level tour of the outside area seeing the planes up close. OHare still can't get their act together. Thanks for taking us along Kevin;:)

[@CondorGreenStripes]

Yes of course Cheryl! Me too, I love this airport and I love this lounge 😍❤️

[@peterwalsh1357]

Agreed @Cheryl Reichardt it's worth going to IAD to ride on this for the close views! Liked the Aer Lingus and Austrian planes we could see!

[@cherylreichardt]

​@@CondorGreenStripesHello! It's really nice!❤

[@CondorGreenStripes]

​@@peterwalsh1357 I agree, loving this IAD Airport and love the Mobile Lounge

[@cherylreichardt]

​@@peterwalsh1357Hello! I think it's genius! ❤

[@highaltitude787]

I love these rides especially when we pass by wide body jets. One of the best ones is in Doha passing by A380s, 777s, A350s, 787s. I still have a video because it’s such a cool experience

[@James-FL]

Kevin that's so cool! a true Dulles Airport one-of-a-kind!! Thank you!

[@duckonmyquack]

I love the positivity in this chat about how unique thwy are, but no one has mentioned the BO after a long international flight in the summer arriving to Virginia's humidity. The smell of jet fuel, ppl, and the carpets of these antique vehicles is a signature one.

[@suntower4246]

Wow! Didn’t realize these vehicles were still in use

[@trinity72gp]

Just look at all of those awesome T-tailers 🤩😍🤩

[@viking956]

My first time at Dulles (1990) I had no idea I was in one of these things. I just went where the gate agent told me to go and sit down. All of a sudden this thing starts moving. Completely surprised me.

[@Kalanifromda808]

They look so weird but yet super fun to ride in😂

[@JohnSulu14]

I would love to go to the Dulles Day Plane Pull Festival this year so that I can see these things from the exterior on the airfield outside of the terminal in person.

[@AeroAdventuresFlying]

1:13 wow that’s crowded

[@alohatvn]

That looks like a lot of fun 😄 😀

[@PaulSmith-on2ie]

These are so cool and I think unique to Dulles. I would fly from that airport just because of this transport. lol. By the way, superb streams from Washington.

[@jhonhplanespotter..6824]

Very nice 💪 💪

[@Impozalla]

What a nice tour of the airport before getting to your gate.

[@RayRaptor21]

Awesome shots Kevin 😊

[@RS-oy7uh]

Cool !!😮

[@patrickmcglone2191]

Never seen those before. Cool

[@mattingham83]

That’s really funky! Looks nicer than a normal bus to and from the plane 👍🏻

[@BAKER22-l4u]

Funny. I work for United at IAD and this just popped up9n my phone

[@FireLordJohn3191]

Didn’t think they’d still have this! Wow. How’d it feel for you?

[@DMVFlights]

So fun to ride in those

[@Airlinesandautos]

Those mobile lounges are pretty cool I guess since I'm used to going overseas to do mission work and I also want to start my own airline

[@AeroAdventuresFlying]

Phew it’s not just me wanting to make my own airline

[@Kaviationfilms]

Good luck.

[@JEK]

Wow never knew this was a thing, I'll still take the LAX people mover.

[@johnmaster3748]

You are not comparing apples with apples. The LAX people mover will be a landside transportation option linking hotels, rental cars, and remote parking to the terminal check-in lobbies. [Pre-TSA] These mobile lounges are an airside means of shuffling passengers between the headhouse and the departure gates by crossing the active airfield. [Post-TSA] Kevin, of course, did the jouney the other way around. Most airports built underground systems to do this job (moving walkways or trains). A few built systems over the airfield (MCO and TPA, automated trains; the new LGA a pedestrian bridge). But IAD had these mobile lounges before the midfield concourses were built. One suspects they have preserved them to retain uniqueness and preserve their own tradition.

[@johnsmith-wd5sq]

Way too many people in that car! Holy Smokes..It's a Good thing nobody ate Taco bell before getting in that thing!

[@KathySandru]

Did you step back in time, or what, Kevin? I can’t believe those vehicles still exist!

[@peterwalsh1357]

It's incredible @Kathy Sandru

[@johnmaster3748]

My first Dulles flight [1980, age 12] predates the construction of the midfield concourses. The Saarinen terminal's original conceit was the mobile lounges delivered passengers directly to their specific plane parked on the tarmac. (In those less paranoid times, my grandfather was allowed to accompany me on the people mover out to the plane because i was flying solo.) So, my first time in one of those vehicles, it elevated itself to the level of a 727's door height, and I stepped aboard the TWA aircraft du jour. The concept was that a smaller headhouse could handle more flights per hour because planes would not take up gate space between loading and unloading (typically an hour, right?). Each terminal gate could service a new plane every 15 minutes or so by instead moving the passengers to the plane. Two or three people movers per flight, as needed. So the headhouse needed fewer departure gates. But there was an upper limit to how many individual planes could be serviced from one people mover gate. (They collected boarding passes and tickets at this point in the process, as passengers transitioned from terminal to people mover.) Eventually, the airport outgrew the terminal. Rather than mar Saarinen's elegant lines with an attached concourse, they chose midfield concourses. (They may have done both!) Now, the people movers connect terminal to concourse rather than to specific plane. One suspects that if the mobile lounges never existed, IAD would have built automated trains or underground walkways to its midfield concourses like every other airport expansion since the 1980s. But they did exist; IAD incorporated their function into the newer concourses; and in doing so retained a link to its own past and unique tradition. Perhaps more importantly, this approach preserved Saarinen's vision for keeping the headhouse smaller. Since that terminal is deemed an architectural landmark of mid-century modern design, and IAD's explosive growth has had minimal impact on the terminal's visual appearance, I'd say they made a smart choice.

[@lindakavinsky3502]

Wow that was interesting. So used to monorail systems. Pretty neat riding around the airport though.

[@sandrafaucha8387]

👏👏💯✈️

[@kevin19358]

Oh nice.

[@EpicThe112]

What washington-dulles needs is a mobile lounge capable of reaching the upper deck of the A380 boarding from a remote stand. JFK also has them in DL paint scheme.

[@Emirates_A380]

🙌🙌

[@r-labs9357]

So basically in other words, a bus

[@citibear57]

Whee !! 😃👍

[@coldpizzasoda8641]

I just realized my dream job is to be a mobile lounge driver at a large airport.

[@tommaxwell4966]

What sort of Mobile Lounge is that at 1:15 with the odd looking fins? Is that the type that can raise and lower itself?

[@WoodJack99]

That is a “plane mate”, the later variation with the fins. Unlike the original lounges it only has a cab on one side, but it can adjust in height.

[@LoveUsa-wx5oe]

💕💕✈✈

[@Ian_Schneider]

I didn’t know these existed

[@bearbullcruising6427]

That was very cool. Enjoy the ride but I’m thinking about unsubscribing. It just seems like people are not friendly on the live and you have to be picture perfect to chat or else the mods will get you. It just doesn’t seem like it’s a friendly atmosphere but I will keep watching your videos. Thanks, Kevin.

[@bosslady5163]

The channel’s chat guidelines are posted on the channels website. AVL is for all ages, therefore, comments must be friendly and positive. 😊

[@bearbullcruising6427]

@@bosslady5163 hey thank you for the information. I will look that up on the website. I was just getting so frustrated with the chat and how are the mods I would get on someone for asking about the weather. I might have missed Kevin talking about it and the Chad move so fast it’s hard to make friends on there my eyesight is limited, so I would move so fast and it takes me a little while to get back to someone if they do answer me just frustrating but thank you very much for your help

[@petrolekh]

Such a bizarre solution to a dubious problme...

[@jloanderson2470]

That's a bus not a lounge

[@gtavstepfordcounty1733]

It's literally called a mobile lounge that's the name of the vehicle 😑

[@jloanderson2470]

@@gtavstepfordcounty1733 doesn't seem like a lounge if all you do is stand up in a crowded space

[@souldasherjoanie7517]

😂😂😂😂RAIN!!!!

[@woodprivacy3776]

FYI that most local DMV residents hate these things. A national embarrassment!