Originally Posted by
IADCAflyer
I'm personally kind of insulted that the largest airport through which AA funnels transatlantic traffic, the airline can't be bothered to make a significant effort to place a premium lounge into the airport. UA has polaris lounges at EWR, IAD, IAH, LAX, ORD, and SFO - basically all of its major gateways.
But the Polaris Lounge is only for passengers travelling in J. No one with elite status (except for Global Services) has access to them. Most TATL flights AA operates out of PHL have only 20 J seats on them. If UA's TATL flights (as well as the TPAC flights) it operates out of those airport hubs only had 20 J seats on them, I doubt that the Polaris Lounge concept would even exist.
And in terms of actual capacity, PHL probably doesn't carry that many more TATL customers than either DFW or JFK (77W/772/789 pax seat counts versus the 788). And those 2 other hubs have additional longhaul flights outside of the TATL market.