The Passenger Transfer Vehicle or Passenger Transport Vehicle (PTV) (mobile lounge) is a 16.5-by-5-meter carriage mounted on a scissor truck, capable of carrying 102 passengers. These vehicles were designed by the Chrysler Corporation in association with the Budd Company, and are nicknamed "moon buggies" due to their otherworldly appearance ...

2016年7月26日 · The mobile lounges of Dulles Airport are huge vehicles, each weighing 76 tons with a maximum cruising speed of 26 miles per hour, and can carry to the terminal building up to 90 bewildered ...

2018年6月13日 · The airport "mobile lounge" was indeed a futuristic concept when the Washington Dulles International Airport opened in the early 1960s. Today, they are a dying breed. A cross between an airport...

2022年11月6日 · However, another method of boarding an aircraft exists, known as mobile lounges. These little-known vehicles serve as something of a halfway house between jetbridges and stairs, but they fell out of fashion decades ago. That said, you can still find them at …

2003年2月23日 · Instead passengers traveled from the terminal to their planes, which could be waiting over a mile away, on strange vehicles called Mobile Lounges and Plane-Mates. Saarinen viewed these mobile lounges as an extension of the airport.

2020年9月1日 · The mobile lounges at Dulles Airport were behemoth vehicles – each weighing in at a rather substantial 76 tons. They could transport 90 – somewhat surprised – passengers at a time with a topspeed of 40 km/h.

2012年12月3日 · Mobile lounges were an integral part of moving passengers around Washington Dulles International Airport, and remain in use today. (Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority) Included in...

2024年9月4日 · A mobile lounge passes the iconic, pagoda-like old control tower at Dulles, 2019 © The Washington Post/Getty Images

2015年1月7日 · Passengers started streaming in and work on a mid-field terminal began. This changed the role of these mobile lounges, which were now used to shuttle people back and forth to the new terminal. Many of the gates in the original airport, where passengers once queued up to go directly to their planes, were re-purposed.

2016年11月21日 · You stroll to your seat, cocktail in hand. Dulles architect Eero Saarinen built his airport of the future around this very thing: the “mobile lounge,” a waiting room on wheels designed to cut the distance between ticket counter and plane.