ORD is another good example. i think CO will leave T2 and move to the old TED gates at T1. that way, you have UA, LH, and CO all under one roof.

i also could see some consolidation of the clubs, like what the *A members did at LHR. no point in running three clubs at once when you can have one.

personally, i'm excited to have CO join. i like their options out of DCA, and i've never been to IAH, so i'd like to connect through there at one point.

In the NW/CO club at ORD right now and there is a sign confirming Continental is moving to T-1. They will take gates B1 - B4 according to the sign and it will be effective June 1.

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Not B-after, but B4. </bingo joke>

any idea on any possible moves in IAH? with construction at the Terminal C check-in area it could be a good time to maybe stick a UA check-in counter there. The improved people-mover might eliminate this need though.

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It is likely that the bus will switch sides so that the UA/US stuff is still "inside" security but otherwise no change. It doesn't make sense to move the check-in unless UA is also going to move their gates. And that seems highly unlikely (and unnecessary) at this point.

With *A I'd expect AC/UA/US (AC already there) to move to A North, so they are inside security and can take the bus (and when finished Tram) inside security to the other terminals. They also get the Prez club.

DL would move to A south I'd presume.

Then you have SQ and LH at D to add to the *A line-up

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Rumor (unconfirmed) - jetBlue will move from FLL T1 to T3. If this happens, given that NW is moving to T2 with Delta, I will speculate on the following:

1) AC moves from T2 to T1 and share a CO gate/gservice
2) God help us, but US will move from T3 to T1, using the gates vacated by NW and B6. I'm not looking forward to the bad karma that the miserable US employees will bring to our happy and cheery land in T1, but the move will consolidate *A and ST carriers together in their own terminals

My main concern is for the PC - it's small, and when the EWR flights start backing up, you get a crush of members from two or more delayed EWR flights and the normally operating IAH flight - if we add in the US/UA and AC members with reciprocal access, the club will overflow.

I hope CO negotiates a special arrangement for this PC location given its size - when CO flights post delays and occupancy increases, they should be allowed to turn away partner and Amex members so the space is reserved for CO customers.

I would agree with your guess here. This makes the most sense. Hopefully we'll see something like this happen...and hopefully not too long after the switch to Star

:rolleyes:

Maybe you can bring some of your COol-Aid to the US gates and help those folks out. Fortunately it comes in powdered form, so you'll have no problem getting it past security to reconstitute in the gate area.

US is beyond help...even if they snorted a line of it instead of mixing with water, the COol-Aid would lack the necessary potency to trigger some sort of remote interest in providing customer service.

The only thing the US employees and customers will be able to do is gaze longingly at the happy faces surrounding the CO gates and wonder why not them....

the happy faces of elites who don't get upgraded?

OK..except those...but not as unhappy as the US Elites who watch the GAs sell their upgrade for payment at the gate, and then get hit in the face by a flapping sheet of peeling paint as they board their 20 year old 1st gen 737-400.

No...the ones waiting in the overcrowded PC because their flight into EWR has been delayed. Again. And it is "ATC" (caused in large part by CO's very aggressive scheduling of the airport) so they get nothing out of the deal except a misconnect.

Not quite so - when I was flying for a few years via EWR and my flight was delayed (most often CO1800, and quite often at that), I was never denied a request to switch routing (via IAH) or get FIM'd to NW, DL or even - gasp - US, and I wasn't even a PC member back then.

At SLC, it appears CO will move near/next to UA.