fjfv19

Awesome. Not only is the club small and overcrowded every time I visit, there is now no wifi. The club "offering" is becoming a joke.

buckeyefanflyer

I have been to this club more then any except CLE. I would agree, I have witnessed overcrowing. The one positive the staff has always been great. This is one of the smaller clubs.

thebob6

Perhaps a sign of things to come..

sbm12

This is awesome FUD. Keep up the good work.

bocastephen

I call your and raise you two more

If you read my post carefully, the difference I was outlining was not the security on the wifi itself, but the larger and less trustworthy audience sharing the same network across 4 terminals instead of fellow club members in a single location. Given south Florida culture, where crime is a sport, my point was to make people aware that other users are almost guaranteed to be sniffing data off the airport wifi system, so either use a VPN or don't log into anything sensitive.

Broward County Aviation Department barely has the intelligence to wipe their own behind, let alone figure out there was interference. The two signals were living together just fine for years (since Continental opened the lounge when T1 itself opened), so I think this is cost cutting pure and simple, although my regular agents were not at the desk to ask what happened - I'll be back in a couple weeks and try to get more details if possible.

KosherKimchee

Usually only on LTE surfing web from iphone because most of time there spent waiting in line to take a pee.

WineCountryUA

so this was speculation and not based on any information from the club personnel?
Might temporary, might be permanent?
Might be cost cutting, might be something else entirely?
Title might ought to be modified to more accurate reflect the level of factual knowledge.

bocastephen

It's definitely permanent...that much I confirmed. I just didn't think so ask why the change was made.

vdostoi1

Agreed on the bathrooms. I just use the first available bathroom there. I get looks from women that stand in line when I get out of the women's bathroom but if I need to go, I need to go.

UA-NYC

Probably not too tough to figure out why the change was made. Just continuing the trend.

Kacee

Indiscriminate slash and burn. Managers likely are being given mandatory cost-cutting targets when there is literally nothing left to cut.

bocastephen

That's my speculation - no other logical reason to suddenly stop a service that was in place for years.

I will do my best to confirm the reasoning when I'm back in the club (unless another member will be there before me and can ask), but given the other changes, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then that's probably what happened.

I do take exception to the comments upthread about this being a bad club. Yes it's small, but it was designed with the Continental operation at that time in mind, and with the space offered by the airport. It has nothing to do with today's United, or even Smisek.

The staff here are among the best in the network, and club is always clean and well maintained, and while it can get crowded nowadays due to more flight activity, it's better than no club, right? I'm less concerned about cutting the club wifi than I am about Smisek and team getting rid of the club location altogether.

...and there are public bathrooms about 30 feet away from the club entrance if there is a long line inside the club. Yes those public bathrooms are gross and disgusting, but they fix a problem in a pinch.

OMAguy

i was in the club on thanskgiving day - it wasnt crowded at all, the staff was great, and the wifi (although the public airport wifi) worked just fine for me - no lag whatsoever (i even did some facetiming off it).

you have to remember the club was for continental originally - and now that the airline has doubled in size, it did not double the space to correspond to the increased size of the airline. atlhough it was empty the day i was there, i can see that it would become quite crowded quite quickly...

CO_Nonrev_elite

This EXACTLY sums up what's wrong at United. A bean counter sits in an office and says "we bring in x dollars for club memberships, and our costs are Y, so if we cut this cost, then our profit goes up". The problem being that the revenue drops each time as another level of dissatisfaction creeps in, and more customers leave.

Why is it that Delta keeps spending money on improvements and their profit continues to dwarf the rest of the industry, yet United keeps cutting everything, and profit lags the industry. Can't these idiots see this ?????? really ???

It's amazing, and it makes me feel awful for the UA employees who now hate their jobs

Akulashark

You are assuming that the site in question is using strict content and the https is for everything on the site and the site uses POST for all communication.

I made the decision to no longer give United my money for the club, after the whole Beverage Downgrade this year.