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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like the Mobile Lounges.  If I am departing from C concourse, I take the mobile lounge instead of the train.  I guess I’m nostalgic.  I’ve taken the mobile lounges for years and am used to them.  Also, I like to get my steps in before a flight, so I don’t mind the walking from D to C.[/quote]

I’ve never understood why people like the mobile lounges. For folks arriving in on international flights, they just add to the overall misery of the process. The one thing that you want to do when a plane lands is deboard, go through customs and get out of the airport and on your way as soon as possible. At Dulles, you get off the plane and immediately join a slow moving line to reach the mobile lounges. As a frequent flier, the window between 7-10pm when most of the International flights arrive is the busiest. I’ve easily been in lines 30+ minutes just to reach the mobile lounge. Then once you are inside one, you are waiting again as they don’t set off until the lounge is full. Pushed all the way to the back, crammed in tight, oh the joy. All of this just to finally get to the misery that is the main customs hall. No other major airport in the world does it this way. As you can probably guess, I hate them with a passion, and if BWI had more flights to Europe, I would never use IAD again.[/quote]

I’m the PP who likes the mobile lounges.  I definitely wasn’t clear in my post.  Returning from an international flight, they’re terrible.  I fly domestic much more than I do internationally, so my point of reference was mainly going from IAD security to the United gates on departure.  I have had the “pleasure” of the mobile lounges after an international flight and agree that it’s a hot mess.[/quote]

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