Originally Posted by
5khours
Unless you are connecting, who's going to hang around the airport to use the arrivals lounge. If I have meetings the same day and enough time to use the arrivals lounge, I'd just as soon check into my hotel early and use what are usually much nicer shower facilities than they have at the arrivals lounge. If I was UA, I'd lose the Arrivals Lounges and put in a few more IFLs with shower facilities that can be used by both arriving and departing passengers.
Does anyone think UA should maintain separate Arrivals Lounges outside of customs and security?
There are a lot more people would use arrivals lounge than you think even if they are terminating. If not CX and NH wouldn't build one in HKG and NRT respectively in the past several years. Besides, I am not sure if you familiar with UA's IFL, many of them already have showers like ORD, SFO, NRT, and HKG. Also, in order to access IFL, one need to fly F in order to access, whereas Arrivals only need to fly paid C or award C to gain access.
Many hotels are either far away or doesn't permit early checkin (very few allow to checkin at 9 or 10 in the morning, or they are going to charge an extra day especially 4 or 5 stars hotels.)