Bout time, lord knows American based airlines need to do better in the lounge and even in the aircraft department, otherwise I think I’ll stick to flying Emirates for international flights.
In some situations, business-class makes relieves 50-percent of the stress and frustrations. Go sit in the massive lounge at Dubai. I wouldn’t mind sitting around there for six hours. The same can be said for various lounges in Hong Kong’s airport. The Qantas lounge at Sydney? Two-star marginal and not worth the cost.
It seems due to rewards credit cards and things like that, airport lounges get incredibly overcrowded on a regular basis now, with a struggle to even find a place to sit.
Back in April, I believe it was in Dallas, one of the American Airlines lounges was new and had the worst amenities I’ve ever seen. Ugly, not good food, and they weren’t approved for liquor yet.
But they did direct me to another one that had a custom-made guacamole station.
The absolute worst is where they pool all the passengers from a few different airlines; I had to go to a crowded, unpleasant lounge in Israel with a unisex bathroom. Yuck.
The main advantage of the first class lounge for air canada in Heathrow is that you got to go thru a better security lineup.
That said, first class, business class, i don’t care. i am retired now and I will fly commercial again only via extraordinary rendition.
Meh. I’ll keep with flying in cattle class and waiting to board the plane at the gate. To me, insisting on waiting in luxury surroundings at the airport makes as much sense as expecting luxury accommodations at a freeway rest area. I’ll admit, I do go to the USO sometimes if I am on a layover. They have free food and wifi. I donate to them regularly, so I really do pay for the amenities.