airport lounges

While speculation is rife over ITA's capital, the Italian airline is working to enhance the travel experience for its business customers. This is illustrated by the opening of the "Piazza di Spagna" lounges at Rome Fiumicino airport and the "Piazza della Scala" at Milan Linate, announced on 19 January. The latter has taken up residence...

Air France has just inaugurated its new business lounge in Terminal 2F, with a monumental, transparent staircase, a sculpture of giant wings, and large windows allowing passengers to follow the ballet of aircraft. This is a complete change for Premium passengers travelling on Schengen routes, who until now have had to make do with a space in the basement, whose capacity...

The new lounge inaugurated by Air France in Montreal has taken up residence in the terminal's international jetty. It has a surface area of 490 m² and a seating capacity of 149. Open daily from 14:00 to 22:00, it is accessible free of charge to Business and Flying Blue Elite Plus customers, who can identify themselves by...

This is good news for the airline world. This summer sees the return of airline and alliance lounges dedicated to premium traffic. This is certainly a tangible sign of the recovery in air traffic worldwide, and more particularly in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Better still, the reopening of the...

Priority Pass, a leading private lounge programme, has announced that 150 new lounges will join the group in 2021. They add to an extensive portfolio of more than 1,300 lounges, which also includes premium dining, rail and maritime lounges. This represents growth of 20 % for...

American Airlines has just taken possession of a new terminal for its regional routes at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, including 14 boarding gates. The new 22,500 m² facility can handle several thousand passengers a day. Designed in cooperation with the airport authorities, the terminal has a capacity of 850 seats. Coming soon...

While almost all of the 35 Qantas lounges are already open for domestic flights, the airline's international lounges are also starting to reopen. For the time being, however, this reopening will only benefit travellers covered by the trans-Tasman travel bubble introduced a few days earlier. And it is limited to...

On 8 April, Alaska Airlines made official its intention to open a new airport lounge at its San Francisco hub (SFO) by next summer. Located in Terminal 2, the lounge will replace the former American Airlines Admirals Club lounge. "So many people are dreaming of travelling this year, so we want to open...

Slowly but surely, the routine of business travel and its obligatory points of passage are regaining their rights. Admittedly, the routine has changed, you now have to come forward masked, and access procedures have evolved, but little by little business travellers are regaining access to these premium offers, which tend to reduce the impact of a busy flight schedule....

The total capacity of the Air France and KLM entities is now down by 90%. This measure is scheduled to last for two months, although the group will have the option of adjusting capacity as the situation develops. During this period, one of the key measures is the grounding of Air France...

It was one of the events awaited by business travellers on the Air France network at the start of 2020, particularly for their business trips from Orly to business destinations such as New York or Algiers: on Thursday 16 January, the airline's brand new lounge opened its doors in Terminal 3 at...

Machine translation is clearly high on the list of airline flight plans for 2020. A few days after the deployment of the Pocketalk tool to All Nippon Airways' teams, and while British Airways is preparing to launch its Bill robot, also equipped with a translation system, American Airlines is working on a...

Since Thursday, Skyteam business travellers have been able to enjoy the new lounge inaugurated by the alliance at the new Istanbul airport. Located in the west wing of the hub, on level H, this 582 m² lounge has a capacity of more than 145 seats. The SkyTeam lounge - whose architectural design has been...

Air France has just inaugurated its new business lounge in Washington, following a modernisation plan. The new, larger space covers 615 sq. m and can accommodate up to 155 passengers. In addition to the catering area, which has been completely redesigned in line with the theme of Parisian brasseries and features "Night Service", the Air France lounge also boasts...

Since Friday 8 March, business travellers passing through Amsterdam's Schiphol airport have had access to the brand new Star Alliance lounge. Located in zone 2 of the departures level, on the Panorama terrace, this lounge has a capacity of 150 passengers, including eligible first and business class passengers, holders of...

American Airlines is pulling out all the stops for its top-of-the-range customers. The airline recently announced an upgrade to its top-of-the-range programme, dubbed Five Star Service. To achieve this, American Airlines will be relying in particular on the VIP facilities that are flourishing in business hubs. Following the example of United, partner of...

A personalised welcome, ultra-fast check-in and security formalities, the comfort of a private suite before being driven in a saloon car to the foot of the plane: for a long time reserved for regular business travellers, these services are now starting to be offered to passengers on commercial routes. Manchester airport, for example, has announced that it will be opening a new service in 2019...

While airlines, alliances and airports regularly review the layout of their lounges, Manchester airport is thinking bigger. The UK hub has just unveiled its new project, dubbed PremiAir: a fourth, private terminal designed to offer travellers a "Jet Privé experience" from mid-2019. [caption id="attachment_82621" align="aligncenter" width="700"]...

The new United Polaris lounge will open on 12 January in Los Angeles, in terminal 7, between gates 73 and 75A. This is the fifth Polaris lounge in the United network, after Chicago, Newark, Houston and San Francisco. At LAX, the lounge covers more than 1,100 m², guaranteeing no less than...

Lufthansa has just opened a third business lounge at Frankfurt airport, in the Schengen zone of Terminal 1A, opposite gate A26. With a surface area of 1,100 m², the Panorama Lounge increases the number of seats available by 40 %. Business travellers with access to this lounge will be able to sit in one of the...