Hold your lounges! Dulles’ love-them-or-hate-them people movers aren’t going anywhere until the mid-2030s

The both loved and hated jet-age mobile lounges at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) have a bit more life left in them yet.The vehicles that ferry travelers to and from several of IAD's concourses and the international arrivals facility cannot be retired until the mid-2030s when several critical pieces of the airport's $19.9 billion redevelopment are complete, a timeline presented Wednesday by airport operator the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) shows.The authority must build a new connector building between the historic Eero Saarinen-designed main terminal and Concourse A-B and extend the underground AeroTrain before the lounges can be parked for good.Major overhaul: United is getting the terminal of its dreams at Washington Dulles. How will it change?Those projects are not scheduled for completion until 2034, said Keith Autry, the vice-president of engineering and Dulles Capital Programs at MWAA, at a board meeting on Wednesday.The plan to redevelop Washington Dulles International Airport. MWAAThe mobile lounges, and their sister vehicles "plane mates," were part of Saarinen's original vision for IAD. That plan included a single terminal building whe...