Which PC's Will Close/Consolidate?
May 4, 2010, 7:33 am
#46
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: ACT/GRK/DAL/ABI/MIA/FLL
Programs: OMNIArchist, OMNIArchy!, OMNIIDGAS
Posts: 23,478
May 4, 2010, 7:33 am
#47
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: ACT/GRK/DAL/ABI/MIA/FLL
Programs: OMNIArchist, OMNIArchy!, OMNIIDGAS
Posts: 23,478
May 4, 2010, 7:39 am
#48
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: A festering pit; a pustule of a fistula set athwart the miasmic swamps of the armpit of the Gulf of Mexico - a Godforsaken wart upon a dark crevasse of the World. (IAH)
Programs: UA Lifetime Gold, BA Silver, Marriott Lifetime Plat, Hilton Gold, Accor Gold
Posts: 31,403
When they close all the EWR clubs, passengers will be bussed between the LGA PClub (UA/CO's new flagship lounge in Nueva York) and EWR. P.S. First passengers from JFK will receive private burro transfers down a dedicated lane of the Van Wyck.
May 4, 2010, 7:41 am
#49
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: A menace to everything in the sky. Yes. Even birds.
Programs: Eh+ Rapid Rolleyes
Posts: 14,519
May 4, 2010, 7:46 am
#50
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: A menace to everything in the sky. Yes. Even birds.
Programs: Eh+ Rapid Rolleyes
Posts: 14,519
ConUniHound. Just wait till the UA folks get word of CO's industry leading bus service. :-::-:
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw CO/UA execs at HPN in discussion to convert part of that flughafen into the flagship NYC area lounge.
May 4, 2010, 7:55 am
#51
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Under the Liberty Visual to 27L at PHL. Stranger in a strange land - a Devils fan in Flyers country.
Programs: PWP Le Chancelier des Clefs d'Or || Sarcasm, Anti-Stupidity, Obscure References top tier member.
Posts: 24,061
May 4, 2010, 7:57 am
#52
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: PHL
Posts: 3,113
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think of Chairman Mao and not Reagan and the Bushes when I see this name.
I can only imagine the uproar when the globe on the tail is replaced by an overgrown whippet.
I would think one of the DFW clubs will close -- whichever one is not in the terminal that ConUniHound will use.
I would think one of the DFW clubs will close -- whichever one is not in the terminal that ConUniHound will use.
May 4, 2010, 7:59 am
#53
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: CLT
Programs: UA 1K, SPG Platinum, Penalty Box 2K, PWP Posting Unit 9
Posts: 13,514
May 4, 2010, 8:02 am
#54
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: San Francisco/Tel Aviv/YYZ
Programs: CO 1K-MM
Posts: 10,763
Well, in seriousness....
SFO PC will close, United flights to IAH/CLE/EWR will be able to squeeze in the space that they have now...
Not sure what will happen in BOS, they may or may not have the space in C to accomodate CO again (A->C->A->C). They'd probably prefer to stay in A but there likely isn't space...
LAX club will stay, that entire pier is CO/UA.
SEA PC will close
SFO PC will close, United flights to IAH/CLE/EWR will be able to squeeze in the space that they have now...
Not sure what will happen in BOS, they may or may not have the space in C to accomodate CO again (A->C->A->C). They'd probably prefer to stay in A but there likely isn't space...
LAX club will stay, that entire pier is CO/UA.
SEA PC will close
May 4, 2010, 8:04 am
#55
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: San Francisco/Tel Aviv/YYZ
Programs: CO 1K-MM
Posts: 10,763
Oh yeah and as for EWR, I expect that United will keep the RCC and gates in the A1 concourse since they have a tendancy to want to keep out as much competition as possible in EWR.
May 4, 2010, 1:25 pm
#56
Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: USA
Programs: UA/CO(1K-PLT), AA(PLT), QR, EK, Marriott(PLT), Hilton(DMND)
Posts: 9,538
May 4, 2010, 1:29 pm
#57
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Bay Area, CA
Programs: UA Plat 2MM; AS MVP Gold 75K
Posts: 35,068
I wouldn't be so sure about that. With CO's LatAm service (and marketing), LAX is probably a hub slated for growth, so they'd want to hang onto that T6 club.
I believe UA has the master lease on some of the T6 gates they're subleasing to other carriers.
SFO PC is most definitely toast. Question is whether they'll open a new club in the T3 AA AC space if they get that pier.
May 4, 2010, 1:43 pm
#58
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: PSM
Posts: 69,232
Agreed. I believe LGA has more square feet, but it isn't nearly as nice as FLL, even when FLL is full.
May 4, 2010, 1:56 pm
#59
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: DCA
Programs: UA LT 1K, AA EXP, Bonvoy LT Titan, Avis PC, Hilton Gold
Posts: 9,659
As discussed - DCA is likely to go or be consolidated with UA. If CO could swap with AA - then AA could take over the PC, and then UA could expand existing club where AA club is now located.
But that assumes that AA will move. I think it depends on what US plans are. If they stay *A, then makes sense for US/UA/CO to be located in the two piers with both a US club and a UA RCC - different security.
But say US teamed with AA then UA would need to move over by CO.
When you look at the PC list - CO doesn't really have that many clubs - outside of hubs. Still would like to see the BWI RCC reopen.
But that assumes that AA will move. I think it depends on what US plans are. If they stay *A, then makes sense for US/UA/CO to be located in the two piers with both a US club and a UA RCC - different security.
But say US teamed with AA then UA would need to move over by CO.
When you look at the PC list - CO doesn't really have that many clubs - outside of hubs. Still would like to see the BWI RCC reopen.
May 4, 2010, 2:03 pm
#60
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Under the Liberty Visual to 27L at PHL. Stranger in a strange land - a Devils fan in Flyers country.
Programs: PWP Le Chancelier des Clefs d'Or || Sarcasm, Anti-Stupidity, Obscure References top tier member.
Posts: 24,061
US is a :-:A member thru almost the end of 2014 unless another round of consolidation happens. Didn't Dougie ask for and get a 5-year extension because of CO joining?