Originally Posted by
transportprof
SFO has United's best arrivals lounge. This has been a lifesaver for me after flying up from SYD over the years. A 2 - 3 hour layover there really makes me feel much better when I get where I'm going, usually YVR. But I bet it would help your state of arrival in IAD, or DCA, too.
I have for over twenty years preferred SFO over LAX because of the later departure ex SYD and the past 10 or 15 because of the Arrivals Lounge in SFO - however this year I have flown on 840 to LAX three times, once physically driving the rental car out of Hertz at 6.32am (32 minutes after being allowed to disembark from the aeroplane at LAX after landing at around 5.45 and docking at the furthest gate (what's up with that furthest gate at TBIT nonsense when we were one of the first land ? 3 times now furthest gate, it must be cheaper for UAL ! ) and twice being in the ANZ Star Alliance Lounge in under 60 minutes from landing - so I do not understand the level of hate aimed at TBIT. Even if one were to clear USCIS beneath Terminal 7 one still must re-clear security. (Both my visits to the ANZ Star Alliance Lounge were after I had cleared PreCheck in T4)