Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
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as far as lounge vs flight, my thought would be that if turning up a reasonable time before the flight, hopefully there will be less than an hour in the lounge vs 15 hours on an aeroplane ( if heading to oz )
Absolutely no incentive to spend "lounge time" in SFO.
Last nights UA SFO-SYD was 14:15 in the air, and 2:45 in the seat prior to push back due to "Chicago administration". At one point during boarding, 100 pax were possibly facing being offloaded or the plane doing a fuel stop in HNL.