Why is it that in the United States one sometimes still cannot get a WiFi link at an airline lounge? It’s bad enough that we have to pay for them most of the time (Admitedly this is also true in Europe. There are also enlightened airlines, such as Continental, that make the service free.), but to not even have anything available at all? It costs what, a few dollars a day in service fees to maintain an ADSL line into a WiFi router? I know that United is in trouble, but this is exactly the type of service that makes a lounge more useful than slumping over to your gate and waiting there. I ended up walking 10 minutes over to the Continental Lounge and leeched a weak signal from outside in the hallway where I huddled down protecting the lone wall outlet providing me power from several others doing the same. LAX doesn’t even offer paid WiFi in the general airport areas!
Uff da!