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Dulles Airport Could Finally Kill Its Mobile Lounges — But The Rebuild Plan Now Costs $22 Billion

View from the Wing·Gary Leff·21 days ago
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Airport Architecture reveals a fast-tracked proposal that’s been shared with airlines to remake Washington Dulles, as part of the President’s push to reimagine the airport . The plan would transform the main Eero Saarinen terminal plus awkward midfield concourses into a more conventional, high-capacity hub layout with linear concourses, underground connections, expanded airport train service, and the potential elimination of mobile lounges. Main terminal expansion and Concourse A work — $6.2 billion the plan keeps the Saarinen terminal, renovates ticketing, extends the building 300 feet in each direction. It would add a new terminal concourse, build an above-ground connector to the current A/B concourses, and renovate Concourse A. Target schedule: April 2027–December 2034. AeroTrain and underground connector — $3.75 billion the AeroTrain would be extended west from Concourse A toward a new Concourse D, with a new below-ground central conncetion from A through D.…

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