Originally Posted by
thegeneral
Perhaps they don't have any AM arrivals. Back when I was a sucker and flew United, I would commonly walk between terminals at OHare to get the food I wanted. I"m guessing that they don't have many flights in the AM, few people connect between flights directly in that terminal and they likely have more traffic in the afternoon. Were there money to be made by having shops open there, I would think they would be open. That's the wonderful thing about capitalism. If there was demand, there would be supply.
1. us airports are not set up to do int-int connections without going through imm/customs
2. no matter what, by the time you are done with int arrival, you are landside and you basically need to start from scratch, re-check luggage, security.
3. i doubt very much ord has many int-int connections in term5 anyways as,
4. all us based and few int airlines go out of domestic terms
5. the int airlines that use term5 for departure have certain busy periods, but mostly leave late afternoon, evenings.
so, term5 is set up that way. why have shop\employees play with their thumbs on the airside when there is nobody there for hours.
different set up, different shop hours. of course one would think that anybody that travels a great deal should have learned that by now.....