Originally Posted by
dulcamara
Did RDU-EWR-NRT-DEN-RDU in Polaris. My wife really liked the Japansese meal. The FAs offered me the mattress on the NRT-DEN leg but not on EWR-NRT. FAs were pretty cheerfully coping with the extra work for Polaris service.
The club in EWR says the Polaris lounge will appear in 2018. DEN really looks sad by comparison, not even a shower.
2018? Thought all the advertising said this year. To be honest, I'm not even quite sure where the entrance for the Polaris lounge is going to be. If I had to guess, all the construction they are doing by where the C3 security check is would make sense, given a lot of international departures are from that part of Terminal C. That said, it better be big...the bank of TATL departures in the afternoon could make it a zoo.
As for DEN...UA only has NRT as a longhaul international flight from there. The Polaris lounge would end up getting used almost solely by connecting passengers - and it would generally make sense for them to utilize the Polaris lounges at whatever airport they are connecting through (e.g. LAX, SFO, etc.).
On another note - does anyone know if a longhaul 'domestic' flight like EWR-HNL would be considered Polaris or not? My hunch is no, but just curious (as the 767s that ply this route will get retrofitted with the hard product at some point).