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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saarinen just did not anticipate the widespread use of jet bridges.

Moon buggies that took one directly to/from the aircraft door were much better than walking on the tarmac to stairs mounted on the back of a pickup truck chassis. (Yes, that was a thing many places.)
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That old cartoon in the link actually explained that his vision went beyond “not anticipating jet bridges” - he proposed that passengers did not have to walk to any gates at all (and jet bridges  still require tons of gates), just go to the departures hall (the one that we all go to when we leave from Dulles), and from there you go directly to your plane on a “mobile lounge”. And you can still see all that infrastructure in the departures hall with the row of old empty docks - always reminds me of the old Disney’s Tomorrowland: interesting “vision” but so, so impractical and wrong.

[youtube]https://youtu.be/FL-mjc1sgX4?si=w5bSKaylhw5WHwrg[/youtube]

And the combination movable stair and a bus is still in use around the world, and I agree I would take Saarinen’s people movers over that any day. [/quote]

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