United Airlines facing major club crunch at O'Hare

United Airlines has encountered some significant lounge issues at Chicago O'Hare International. Just 7 months after the heavily-promoted launch of United's first Polaris international business class lounge at O'Hare, the carrier has discovered the space devoted to the lounge in Concourse C of Terminal 1 at O'Hare is proving too small to adequately handle the crush of Polaris-ticketed passengers seeking to use the lounge during peak international flight departure times in the early morning and late afternoon. Most of the space now devoted to the Polaris lounge at O'Hare previously was a lounge for the exclusive use of United's first-class passengers. But first class is slowly being eliminated from United's international operations as Polaris rolls out and becomes the predominant premium cabin offering for United passengers. <br/>