Cold brew coffee lovers can now enjoy their favorite beverage in the friendly skies. United Airlines will soon add the popular beverage to their in-flight menu. The cold brew, made by the Italian, family-owned coffee manufacturer illy, is brewed for 12 hours before being sealed and sent for distribution to passengers. The official launch of the beverage on board is July 1. However. travelers flying between New York / Newark (EWR) to Los Angeles (LAX) or San Francisco (SFO) will be able to enjoy a preview of the brew on red-eye flights between now and July 3. “We know fliers enjoy a pick-me-up during travel, and illy’s canned cold brew is the perfect beverage option for coffee lovers looking to stay energized and focused during their trip," United's Managing Director of Hospitality Programs Aaron McMillan shared in a statement to T+L. United also shares that cold brew will be available on flights longer than 300 miles, which is a majority of their mainline routes.
Chase will open a Sapphire Lounge in Los Angeles, its 10th confirmed location
13.06.2024 - 21:15 / thepointsguy.com / John F.Kennedy
Chase is quickly catching up in the race for the most extensive credit card-branded airport lounge network.
On Thursday, the issuer announced that it's building a new outpost for the Chase Sapphire Lounge by The Club at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
The new LAX lounge will be near the west gates of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, adjacent to Gate 148.
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All terminals at LAX are connected airside (post-security), so theoretically any traveler could visit this new outpost. That said, getting to TBIT can be a schlep, depending on what terminal you are departing from.
Chase didn't share too many details about the new lounge other than confirming that it will measure 9,234 square feet. That's definitely on the smaller size, especially for an airport at the scale of LAX, so I would fully be prepared to join a waitlist to enter the space.
The issuer promised more updates as construction progresses, but this space seems still a long way off.
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When it opens, it will compete with the existing American Express Centurion Lounge, which opened in 2020 in the TBIT. The Amex lounge measures nearly 14,000 square feet, and it has space for just over 500 guests.
Based on the rendering, the Chase lounge appears to have airside views with lots of natural light, something that's noticeably missing from Amex's interior location.
Interstingly, Chase's rendering of the facade entrance shows the lounge at an exterior terminal location, but that's likely just a schematic to be replaced with the TBIT.
The Los Angeles outpost will become one of the issuer's highest-profile locations. Chase already has lounges open in Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), Dulles International Airport (IAD) and at both New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and LaGuardia Airport (LGA). In fact, the two-story LGA location is perhaps the nicest credit card-branded lounge in the entire country.
In addition to the existing locations, Chase has a stacked pipeline of upcoming (confirmed) spaces, including:
This expansion comes as the airport lounge wars have been heating up. Amex had long enjoyed a monopoly with the Centurion Lounge network that first debuted in 2013. Since then, Amex has expanded its network across the country.
Capital One then debuted its first lounge in Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) in 2021. This issuer now has three total locations — Denver International Airport (DEN) and Washington Dulles joined DFW — and one that's confirmed to be in the pipeline at JFK.
Capital One is also building smaller
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Credit card issuers compete on many fronts, but one area that has been heating up the most is airport lounges. Chase is now in the game with facilities dubbed "Chase Sapphire Lounge by The Club." You'll need the right credit card to get unlimited access to these lounges, which we detail in this guide.