United Club

Right.

So Dawn saw somebody have them at the Bears game and coming down from the United Club, which you have to pay extra for.

So Dawn goes, hey, I'll give you 20 bucks for that mug.

And she goes, it cost me 30.

They did just announce that they're going to put an Amex Centurion lounge there.

But right now, they don't have much outside of the United Clubs.

But if you're flying business class internationally, you get access to the Polaris lounge.

And this lounge puts most other lounges to shame.

United or their partner airlines.

So, for example, if you're flying business class on Lufthansa or Swiss Air or one of the ones that's in the same Star Alliance as United, those folks will be able to get in.

The regular United clubs, you can get in with the big fancy United credit card.

The United club card will let you in, but the Polaris lounges are reserved for both points and paid cash tickets, but they have to be in business or first class.

If you're going to the game, come over and say hi.

I'll be in the United Club.

Me and Tim and RC and Mike and whoever else is there.

I'll be doing the Grizzlies at end.

Reagan's – I'm not going to say it's bad.

I just like – I was in the terminal for – in the United Club for 10 hours.

And it just – and the whole board said – Surprised they

have a United Club at PCA.

It

was fine.

So it's just a lot more.

I don't know.

So yes, we did find that, um, in our, in our study.

So Andrea, I mentioned that the, the top three, and they were credit card bank-branded lounges that came in your top three, and I was a little surprised to see United Club, including United Polaris, rank ninth overall out of the top 10.

Yeah, they really promote how great they are.

Um, the, the airline ones didn't do as well.

I know United started this, but I forgot what they call it, but it's kind of like a grab and go.

In Denver, they have a couple of these locations where you can, instead of going into the United Club and taking up room, you can just go to this It's, it's even automated.

You scan in your boarding pass, and that knows whether you have access to it or not.

You go in.

And as I mentioned, if you do have Marriott Titanium status, do look for the opportunity to match that over to Air Canada 25K status because even if you don't fly Air Canada, just it doesn't cost you anything other than, you know, a few minutes of your time to link your Air Canada and your Marriott account, so you can have that status.

The status that would give you more benefits, even if you don't fly Air Canada itself, is once you get to 50K status because that'll give you this equivalent of Star Alliance Gold.

Now, anytime you fly any Star Alliance carrier, such as United, even domestically here in the US, with that Air Canada status, you should be able to access the United clubs or other lounges while flying domestic, even if you're in economy, because you do have Star Alliance Gold status.

As far as the benefits for all the other tiers, like Oz mentioned, if you have the super elite status, you're able to cancel with no penalty, so that could be very valuable if you do fly Air Canada itself.

I just want to talk about another lounge brand.

This is United Club.

They actually are set to open their largest United Club yet, and that is supposed to open this month.

That lounge is going to be more than 50,000 square feet.

Just for context, that is roughly the size of 10 NBA basketball courts.

So we have our signature clubs like Polaris Club for our customers sitting in Polaris.

We have our United Clubs for non-Polaris customers.

We have a suite of amenities in all of these different terminal locations across the US.

And it almost does feel like a private terminal in itself when you see all the United Tails lined up outside at the different gates that we have.