Keep the tips coming in - I'll play editor tommorow and assemble some more tips (such as buy up ORD-MAN is $400 which SAS ground services are happy to relive you of
and when you can start checking in (HINT: Its earlier than 3pm!)
Prospero: I'll need some thinking time on that. I remember 2 halls (and using both on my first flight into ORD) and i can't remember the setup of the other one. Probably a pen and paper job to work out. That or you came in via Gates M1 - M8... (rare but possible. They drag the A330 away after everyone has been chucked off ad the aircraft is clean, only to tow it back to M15 later)
kt74: I'll do some more integration tomorrow. Only once have I arrived on 705 with a full queue (and both halls were packed). The other times we were on time... or 6 hours late!
dliesse Thanks for the update on Mayor Daley's lovely workers stuffing up ORD T1/T2 (I always seem to pass T2 and see it in more of a tip than it was each time - Probably just to get more work. My long standing comments about T5 Departures stand though