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Old Apr 15, 2023 | 5:29 am
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Originally Posted by Brostman
Despite my earlier hopeful prediction, I would now agree that EK will likely stay in T5 until the new Global T2 is completed.... which is several years down the road.
I departed ORD T5 on EK a couple of days ago. The place is now a full construction site, redoing retail and F&B, so customer experience is even worse at the moment. Probably the worst contract lounge of in the entire network, too. https://www.ord21.com/signature_proj...erminal-5.aspx

Was chatting with one of the check-in agents. Although not employed by EK, he said it was unlikely EK could move to T1 unless it joined Star Alliance due to exclusivity clauses in that pact, which kind of makes sense.
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