I didn’t catch this thread before my flight a few weeks ago. I ended up being caught off guard and having to take the bus over 5:30 am’ish. Because of my lack of research , also didn’t realize that there are no sky team lounges open at that hour in TBIT, as such I had Panda Express on the wrong side of 7AM.

what can you do but laugh?

As posted above, bus ride is very lame (just sucks waiting on another SRO bus pre dawn). I would have done sky club at T2/3 and walked over to TBIT an hour before if I had any clue what I was doing