Dull, Duller, Dulles
August 19, 2008 at 7:28 am
Can’t get enough JFK-references in Barack Obama coverage?
Then consider another route — today’s Washington Post story on Dulles Airport replacing its mobile lounge shuttles with Aerotrains.
The AeroTrain, similar to train systems in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Tokyo and Hong Kong, will cost $1.4 billion, nearly half of the $3 billion D2 expansion at Dulles, which includes a fourth runway, parking garages, 15 new gates, concourse and terminal expansions, and a control tower.
But the airport’s 49 Kennedy-era mobile lounges are not being retired — at least not yet. They will be used to serve the D gates and for all international arrivals, because international passengers must be segregated until they pass through customs.
True JFK fans should consider this photo from the Dulles Airport kids page.
Caption:
President John F. Kennedy (on the left) and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (in the center, holding his hat) walk up to a sculpture of John Foster Dulles (on the far right) at Dulles Airport!
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