Interesting comment re LAX lounges.
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A quick search finds no evidence to support this statement I found at www.airlinequality.com under the Airport Review section. Was wondering if anyone else had heard of anything to support this.
Quote:
LAX Int'l Airport by C Reader
21 July 2005
It is the City of Los Angeles' intention to take away all lounges in the next 9 months from individual airlines at the international terminal, and establish common "Alliance" and "Non-Alliance" lounges for both first and business classes. Move in date for the new lounges is currently scheduled for 03/07/06. As a result, none of the airlines in LAX are investing in upgrades to their current lounges, nor would it be particularly wise to do so under the circumstances.
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Now I'm a tad confused...... which terminal exactly is THE "International" terminal?
Secondly I'm wonderring since when the City of Los Angeles owned LAX.
Thirdly I am interested to know why LAWA would want to take lounge responsibility away from individual airlines by standardizing the lounges so that there is no difference between airline A, B, C, D (you get the idea) pre-flight, aside from check-in.
Finally, if an airline left once of these alliances, they would essentially be without a lounge, or have a crappy replacement at best, confusing the hell out of passengers in the meantime.
Refers to TBIT. There's been some threads on FT about it. Apparently will be one lounge (presumably with separate first & business) for all OW and another for all *A.
I havent been through TBIT since building on this was supposed to have started so dont have any first hand info.
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Yes this refers to TBIT, and is one of factors that lead QF to move their SYD flights to T4 and to invest in the joint QF/AA lounge there. The airlines are not advertising the fact that for many months there will be very limited (exactly how much is not known) lounge facilities at TBI while the renovations are undertaken.
As it stands now, there are times when some people are turned away from lounges there due to capacity limits. So when they close a significant amount of the current space for renovations, there are going to be a lot of disappointed people.
Currently there are two levels of lounges at TBIT. I don't know the final plans, but it seems to make sense to renovate one floor at a time. So it would again make sense to me that each alliance would be given, say 1/3 of each floor to build a two-level lounge facility. So if they start by renovating level 5, they could continue to use the level 6 lounges at the same time. Then when level 5 is complete, each alliance will have some new lounge space to use while level 6 is renovated.
But since when did logic come into play with such things?
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Originally Posted by tuapekastar
Thanks...sounds like some short term pain for (hopefully) long term gain.
But the short term pain may last a year or more! There are going to be a lot of really annoyed people who have paid or earned memberships who will not be able to enter a lounge at LAX TBI over an extended period of time.
These BB's are going to filled with complaints about this topic. Those of us who know about it will ensure we never depart from TBI, but always take the SYD flights. The other option will be for those making an AA connection to use the T4 lounge before heading over to TBIT. Just have to time the walk over to TBIT correctly to ensure you make it through security before the flight leaves. In my experience, the security check at TBIT takes between 1 and 20 mins depending on the queue - closer to the evening departure times the queues can get longer.
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