Reimagined United Polaris Lounge Opens in Chicago
United has opened its newly renovated and expanded United Polaris lounge at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport, providing vacationers extra space, a contemporary design and elevated facilities. The United Polaris lounge in Chicago is now 50% bigger and options practically 25,000 sq.-ft. of lounge house, together with greater than 350 seats for vacationers, 50 seats throughout a bigger eating house, a second bar, six extra restrooms, non-public areas for rest or work, and a spread of merchandise curated together with Crate & Barrel – the primary and solely airline collaboration for the entire dwelling retailer.
United was the primary U.S. airline to debut a premium lounge solely for worldwide enterprise class vacationers with the launch of the United Polaris lounge in 2016 and at present has six of them within the U.S. – greater than every other U.S. airline.
“Our huge worldwide community is considered one of United’s distinctive strengths, and our United Polaris lounges assist set the tone for enterprise class vacationers earlier than or after their long-haul flights,” stated Aaron McMillan, United’s Managing Director of Hospitality Applications. “Clients are going to like our new Chicago lounge as a result of it offers them extra of the entire issues they need most—extra space, extra facilities, and extra eating choices—and we’ll carry this new elevated design into future lounge openings and renovations throughout our United Polaris lounge portfolio.”
The reopening of the United Polaris lounge in Chicago marks the airline’s newest funding in its community of golf equipment and lounges. Since 2022, United has opened or renovated a complete of 9 United MembershipSM areas throughout its system, together with the latest opening of United Membership Fly in Houston. In 2025, the airline will open a brand new eating room within the United Polaris lounge in Newark and a renovated and expanded United Membership in Denver’s B West Terminal, which can full its plan to revamp each United Membership at Denver. Internationally, United plans to reopen the United Membership in Hong Kong. In 2026, United will open a brand new United Membership in San Francisco and its largest-ever United Membership in Houston.
Extra Eating and Beverage Choices
With the addition of a second bar within the newly renovated United Polaris lounge, United is the primary and solely U.S. airline to supply two full-service bars in a enterprise class lounge. There at the moment are greater than 25 bar seats with an choice to takeaway a drink to a different seating space and a menu of top-shelf liquor, premium wines, non-alcoholic drinks and extra. The brand new, second bar is a speakeasy-style house with a choice of premium wine and champagne choices, equivalent to Laurent-Perrier La Cuvée Brut, and Chicago-inspired cocktails, together with the Second Metropolis Bitter that includes Rittenhouse Rye, Malort, Lemon, Egg White and Lingua Franca Pinot Noir.
The renovated lounge additionally contains a bigger eating space with greater than 50 seats – practically tripling the quantity of eating seats – the place vacationers can order à la carte meals with curated premium meals and drinks, together with Prosciutto Parmigiano Crostini, Shrimp, Scallop, Spring Vegetable Risotto and Aperol Spritz cake.
Along with a la carte eating, clients can get pleasure from a sizzling buffet with breakfast, lunch and dinner menus, mezze station with lemon honey whipped ricotta, flatbreads and extra, and snacks served at each bars like premium nuts, mediterranean olives and a charcuterie board.
Chicago-Impressed Design and Decor from Crate & Barrel
Impressed by the native area, the renovated United Polaris lounge displays the Chicago space by celebrating the town’s structure and distinctive geography. United labored with Johalla Tasks, an artwork curatorial collective in Chicago, to showcase paintings from 9 Chicago-based artists on a spread of items, together with print pictures, work, collages and extra that spotlight the area.
To raise the lounge expertise, dinnerware and decor is supplied by Crate & Barrel. Marking Chicago-based Crate & Barrel’s first-ever collaboration with an airline, United labored with the retailer’s in-house design and enterprise gross sales groups to curate timeless items that elevate the traveler expertise. From Crate & Barrel’s traditional Marin dinnerware and new Tuscan Marble assortment, to colours of Le Creuset which might be unique to the retailer, each element was chosen to reinforce each kind and performance.
United’s Continued Funding in Golf equipment and Lounges
United is the world’s largest airline* with probably the most in depth worldwide community, providing roughly 500 day by day flights to and from 150 worldwide locations for vacationers all over the world. As a part of the airline’s dedication to develop its community and convey vacationers to new locations, United is investing in renovating and increasing its portfolio of United Membership areas and United Polaris lounges.
United is Chicago’s Hometown Airline®, a central hub for nonstop connections throughout the globe. As demand for worldwide journey continues to develop in Chicago, clients can benefit from the upgraded United Polaris lounge when touring nonstop to fifteen locations in Europe, in addition to nonstop to Asia and South America – continents the place United presents the one U.S. provider service. With the continued curiosity and future development of lengthy haul flying, the revamped United Polaris lounge gives a premium expertise for vacationers to refresh and refuel earlier than or after their flight.
The United Polaris lounge in Chicago is situated in Terminal 1 close to gate C18, and it’s open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. CT day by day. Worldwide clients touring in United Polaris and premium Star Alliance cabins can entry the United Polaris lounge at areas in Chicago, Houston, Washington D.C., New York/Newark, San Francisco and Los Angeles.