airport lounges

Two lounges, two atmospheres: while Delta Air Lines is tightening the conditions of access to its Sky Club catalogue, Star Alliance is gradually opening the doors of its lounges to passengers of all classes. And for the first time in Europe. After Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles, it is now the turn of...

The Delta Sky Club is experiencing record attendance this year. Faced with lounges that are often packed to the rafters, Delta has decided to change some of the conditions of access to the Clubs. This measure will take effect from 2023. Delta explains that it wants to preserve the exclusivity of its lounges. "It is extremely important to us that the Sky...

TAP Corporate, TAP Air Portugal's frequent flyer programme, is specially designed for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It rewards them for every trip made by their employees to one of the more than 80 destinations served by the airline worldwide. It also gives access to a range of discounts and...

While the Qatar Airways Premium Lounge in Terminal 4 has just reopened to Qatar Airways 1st and Business Class passengers, the carrier has just inaugurated a second lounge. It is reserved for Privilege Club frequent flyers and those of the airline's partners in one world. The lounge offers...

At the start of this summer, Singapore seems to have finally turned the page on the Covid-19 crisis. In any case, Singapore Airlines is looking to the future with renewed confidence, which is borne out by the figures. The reopening of the city-state to the world since the end of last year - and with the end of the...

Just over two months after the inauguration of the new international terminal in Santiago - the fruit of an investment of 860 million euros - SkyTeam is completing the business section of the Chilean hub. The airline alliance has just inaugurated a new business lounge, the first in the SkyTeam colours in South America. Business travellers...

Delta is clearly aiming to win over business travellers. The airline recently unveiled its roadmap for airport lounges. And it's clear that the US carrier is investing heavily in this area. Two top business destinations will host the largest Delta Sky Clubs. The 20...

"What I'm doing is making a personal commitment to you to build a better British Airways. An airline you can trust with excellent customer service. With someone always on hand to help. Most importantly, an airline you'll be proud to fly,...

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...