I thought I'd try to guess the maximum number of Polaris passengers in the new Lounge on a given day at ORD (in this particular case I picked Tuesday, I have no idea whether that's typical or whether another day is worse).
I made the following assumptions:
- Every flight is full
- Every Polaris passenger enters and stays in the lounge from T-2:00 to T-:45.
These are EXTREMELY unlikely assumptions, but it also does not include:
- Pax are arriving on a Polaris flight
- Pax who are departing from ORD but connecting to a Polaris flight at another airport
- For this I added 25%
And of course not everyone is going to spend that much time in the lounge (though some, like me, will spend more, especially Friday!). But it's a good guesstimate as to what the worst/best times in the lounge should be. (I'm happy to see that my usual 2:25pm to FRA will be at the lowest time)
Of course we also don't know the capacity of the Lounge yet - I'm going to count the seats when I'm there Friday!
Code:
Airline Dest Dep Lounge Time A/C Cap Max Max+25%
UA PVG 9:50am 8:50am-9:05am 747 64 64 80
NH NRT 10:45am 8:45am-10:00am 77W 60 124 155
UA NRT 12:15pm 10:15am-11:30am 774 64 160 200
UA PEK 12:30pm 10:30am-11:45am 772 48 160 200
UA HKG 1:25pm 11:25am-12:40pm 772 48 208 260
UA FRA 2:25pm 12:25pm-1:40pm 772 48 96 120
UA LHR 4:10pm 2:10pm-3:25pm 763 32 240 300
LH FRA 4:15pm 2:15pm-3:30pm 748 88 240 300
NH HND 4:15pm 2:15pm-3:30pm 77W 60 240 300
NH NRT 4:35pm 2:35pm-3:50pm 77W 60 240 300
UA BRU 5:50pm 3:50pm-5:15pm 763 32 144 180
UA LHR 6:00pm 4:00pm-5:15pm 763 32 144 180
UA FRA 6:15pm 4:15pm-5:30pm 772 48 144 180
UA CDG 6:30pm 4:30pm-5:45pm 763 32 144 180
UA GRU 8:50pm 6:50pm-8:05pm 763 32 128 160
UA LHR 9:10pm 7:10pm-8:25pm 763 32 128 160
LH MUC 9:35pm 7:25pm-8:50pm 346 64 128 160