Originally Posted by
emcampbe
Do you have a source for this? So far as I understand, all comments about UA removing club access for pax to Canada are purely speculation, and I don't recall even seeing a post with a report of any staff member has confirming this. The only thing I've seen is somebody speculating without evidence that a change for premium cabin to Canada being re-named to 'First' from 'Business' is driven by a change to Club access policy. Seems indeed to be speculation and nothing else, and that folks are still being admitted.
The concern is that the lounge access policy specifically requires your flight to be Business-marketed in order to be eligible. A particularly zealous dragon could try to deny you entry today.
There is a footnote that
All other international routes are United Business® and include use of the United Club: Guam, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador.
However, this statement is actually false -- Canada routes are
not United Business, and so the policy is itself contradictory. They may not intend to curtail lounge access to Canada, but Delta did something almost identical (including using First versus Delta One marketing as determining access) so it does seem suspicious.