Don’t know when this feature went live but flying through SFO earlier I came across this when doing a lounge search as SFO isn’t a usual airport for me.
Seems like this has rolled out to all centurion lounges. Would have to imagine it had something to do with Amex acquiring Lounge buddy. Hopefully this rolls out to other lounges as well.
@wasCB14 wrote:
SFO has a small Centurion. I wonder if remote check-in will lead to abuses if people want to claim a spot long in advance of their actual arrival.
Or maybe the option requires selection of a narrow arrival window.
Believe the moment you check-in the timer in the APP starts for a 30 minute window to check-in. I have no issue with them adding this functionality, but it seems to me like maybe it's a test before further twerks are made. For me traveling, half the time I am running to a gate to avoid missing an international, or getting off an international and not quite having the luxury of whipping out my phone to check-in. With that, since you still have to show a boarding pass and ID, the whole point of the app check-in seems double duty for me. I could possibly see this benefiting a person who travels at the max traffic peak hour (Am and pm rush) otherwise, it doesn't 'fix' any problem per say.
