Replacement BA Lounge at NBO???
May 2, 2014, 4:40 am
#31
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: MAN/BHX
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There is a note in one lounge saying something like "due to capacity this is only for (one set of customers), our xxx card holders are invited to go to the cafe next door where refreshments will be provided"
Jun 11, 2014, 11:57 am
#33
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver, Virgin Red
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June update
Still the same as paulwuk's photos.
Opened about 3 hours before flight time, Internet is free but slow. The seats may be bog standard airport seats but at least it's relatively quiet.
Food isn't too ropey, a reasonable hot and cold finger buffet isn't unusual for this kind of location. No Amarula today but a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black label has joined the line up.
No idea why we have to do two X-ray scanners to enter, the second immediately after the first!
Opened about 3 hours before flight time, Internet is free but slow. The seats may be bog standard airport seats but at least it's relatively quiet.
Food isn't too ropey, a reasonable hot and cold finger buffet isn't unusual for this kind of location. No Amarula today but a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black label has joined the line up.
No idea why we have to do two X-ray scanners to enter, the second immediately after the first!
Oct 5, 2014, 6:59 am
#35
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: MAN/BHX
Programs: ABBA
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Feb 22, 2016, 1:53 pm
#38
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 113
Space at JKIA is very limited so even if BA did want to set up a lounge, there is physically nowhere for them to do so. It's a case of waiting for the expansion to be completed before space can be allocated.
Traffic in NBO is horrendous and unpredictable. Flew there in July and it took me 3 hours to get from Wetlands to the airport...almost missing my flight.
Traffic in NBO is horrendous and unpredictable. Flew there in July and it took me 3 hours to get from Wetlands to the airport...almost missing my flight.
Feb 23, 2016, 3:39 am
#39
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 6,349
Space at JKIA is very limited so even if BA did want to set up a lounge, there is physically nowhere for them to do so. It's a case of waiting for the expansion to be completed before space can be allocated.
Traffic in NBO is horrendous and unpredictable. Flew there in July and it took me 3 hours to get from Wetlands to the airport...almost missing my flight.
Traffic in NBO is horrendous and unpredictable. Flew there in July and it took me 3 hours to get from Wetlands to the airport...almost missing my flight.
I'm not sure whether it will be another shared facility or whether the likes of BA and Emirates will look to have separate lounges? If the latter then money will talk and we know who will get theirs first.
The arrivals hall is also still dire, we arrived after KLM and were about 10th in visa line but BA and EK arrived soon after and it got rammed. There is no point getting visa in advance as you still have to stand in the same queue.
Feb 23, 2016, 8:03 am
#41
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 6,349
Nope, they were using them all to issue visas on Thursday night. Only 4 were manned. Two queues splitting at the front into 4 desks.
Feb 25, 2016, 11:52 am
#43
Join Date: May 2013
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Mar 2, 2016, 4:54 pm
#44
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: NYC
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Free to get in to Aspire when traveling CW? Or did you have some other way to access?