UA Expands Mercedes-Benz Tarmac Service to San Francisco for the Spring
Mar 15, 2014, 1:46 pm
#16
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Some passenger received that Mercedes transfer yesterday (3/14) on a flight from EWR-IAH. When we landed at IAH approximately 50 minutes late, the Mercedes and service cart was parked near the gate ready to go. It was announced that several passengers had very tight connections, so they asked people to be seated for a minute if they were not connecting in order to let those folks exit. Flight was on a sold out 767-400.
Mar 15, 2014, 2:41 pm
#17
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Some passenger received that Mercedes transfer yesterday (3/14) on a flight from EWR-IAH. When we landed at IAH approximately 50 minutes late, the Mercedes and service cart was parked near the gate ready to go. It was announced that several passengers had very tight connections, so they asked people to be seated for a minute if they were not connecting in order to let those folks exit. Flight was on a sold out 767-400.
Mar 15, 2014, 2:48 pm
#18
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Washington DC
Posts: 1,356
Don't the people "making connections from foreign arrivals to domestic flights" have to go through immigration/customs first, even if using Global Entry?
Mar 15, 2014, 3:49 pm
#20
Join Date: Apr 2003
Programs: UA *G 1MM LT United Club & Global Entry
Posts: 2,756
I thought this service would have been useful at SFO when UX was using T1, but the international gates can still be quite a hike from most of T3.
SunLover
Mar 15, 2014, 4:18 pm
#21
Join Date: May 2012
Location: LAX
Programs: UA GS/1MM, Ritz Carlton Plat
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Not exactly the same thing, but last year at NRT with a close connection/late arriving flight (from LAX), a GS agent picked me up inside the gate in a golf cart and drove me to the connecting terminal security line. This was inside the airport, not on the tarmac.
Mar 15, 2014, 5:17 pm
#22
Join Date: Dec 2003
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I'm coming into SFO tomorrow on AC into T1 and flying out on UA GF from the international terminal. Already a somewhat tight connection so will be interested if I get this service if we are at all delayed. Clearing in Canada will mean not having to worry about customs/immigration.
Mar 15, 2014, 10:21 pm
#23
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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I wonder how they go about dispatching this driver. During your 2 hour layover the driver might not have had anyone else to take care of while you may have been further down the food chain during your 20-minute connection. The whole service seems like a novelty.
Mar 15, 2014, 11:48 pm
#24
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Of course you have to accommodate the 9 out of 10 SFO pax who are GS. So here's the Mercedes they'll be using:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wzr8BJjc7J...255B1%255D.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wzr8BJjc7J...255B1%255D.jpg
Mar 16, 2014, 9:19 pm
#25
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: West Lafayette, IN
Programs: 1MM UA Gold
Posts: 179
I've gotten it once, at ORD--for a not particularly tight connection. Personally, I found it more embarrassing than worthwhile. Maybe I'd have felt differently if it *had* been a tight connection.
Mar 16, 2014, 11:04 pm
#26
Join Date: Mar 2012
Programs: UA/MM/1K
Posts: 181
UA Expands Mercedes-Benz Tarmac Service to San Francisco for the Spring
I'm a 1k, not a GS, but whenever I've flown LH through FRA or MUC in 1st, have always enjoyed their lounge to plane Tarmac service via MB, Porsche....if UA is trying to do something similar ...they need to try harder and explain under what conditions you get this service. At LH, you get this service from FCT to all LH/Swiss Flights, from FCLounge in B to all non B gates.
Mar 16, 2014, 11:43 pm
#28
Join Date: Mar 2012
Programs: UA/MM/1K
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UA Expands Mercedes-Benz Tarmac Service to San Francisco for the Spring
Here's an article regarding the service at ORD
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323423804579025120455867410?mobile =y
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323665504579029302122205982.html
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323423804579025120455867410?mobile =y
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323665504579029302122205982.html
