Feb 20, 2024, 9:40 pm
Last edit by: WineCountryUA
T5 Lounges
SAS Business Lounge
Departure level,M13,Next to departure gate M13-M15
limited hours
SAS is in process of leaving *A for ST
LX lounges -- closed due to COVID and never reopened
T1 has UA Polaris Lounge and UCs
SAS Business Lounge
Departure level,M13,Next to departure gate M13-M15
limited hours
SAS is in process of leaving *A for ST
LX lounges -- closed due to COVID and never reopened
T1 has UA Polaris Lounge and UCs
International T5 ORD partner *G lounges (SAS only)
That is my plan when I do CDG-ORD-EWR next month.
Jul 15, 2017, 10:13 am
#17
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You can access the SAS lounge in T5 with any boarding pass. I've done it. It's a haul and not really worth it unless you have a long layover with absolutely nothing else to do. TSA doesn't care.
Jul 15, 2017, 10:32 am
#18
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This was also my experience recently. TSA will let you through as long as you have a same-day boarding pass departing from any terminal.
Jul 15, 2017, 11:13 am
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Jul 15, 2017, 11:21 am
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Unlike most other airports in the world, you do not go through formal exit immigration in the U.S. to get to a gate. OP can enter T5 with a domestic boarding pass, but hardly worth the trouble.
Jul 15, 2017, 11:21 am
#21
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Exactly. I had several hours to kill between domestic flights at ORD, so I took the tram to terminal 5, passed through TSA with a terminal 1 boarding pass and got in the SAS lounge using my *Gold status. Spent 90 minutes there and walked out of T5 and caught the tram back to T1. It takes some time to transfer terminals, but if you have lots of time to kill it's with it, IMO.
Jul 15, 2017, 11:22 am
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Jul 15, 2017, 11:31 am
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really are you sure? I know they do it the other way, but dont see why it would run airside T5 to T3 - anyone disembarking at T5 on BA (or AA) has to come outside of security, so would just take the train outside of security, and not a bus. Also, even if trying to do T3-5, my understanding is that you need a BA boarding pass to use the bus. I've definitely heard that announcement though not sure if it's enforced.
Mar 2, 2019, 12:36 pm
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Sep 4, 2019, 7:40 pm
#29
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Your departure is from a different terminal T5 than the United Clubs in T1 (no Polaris access when in PE) and transfers to T5 from the UA gates is a bit messy at the moment due to an upgrade in progress to the ATS.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...ng-2019-a.html
In T5 there are LX, SK lounges, only marginally better than a United Club --
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...-reopened.html & best lounge to use at ORD Terminal 5
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Sep 4, 2019 at 8:24 pm Reason: T5 lounge thread
Sep 4, 2019, 7:48 pm
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NZ departs from the international terminal at ORD (T5). No UCs there. There may be a partner lounge at T5 NZ utilizes.