LONDON – If you’re traveling from London’s Heathrow Airport aboard Delta Air Lines or one of its SkyTeam partners, you’ll soon be able to take advantage of a futuristic and luxurious new lounge that looks like something out of “The Jetsons.”

Delta Air Lines and the Air France KLM group unveiled the two-level minimalist styled lounge — its first ever co-branded alliance lounge — on Friday , nearly a week before its official opening Thursday.

....the premium lounge will provide a respite for all international first- and business class passengers, as well as SkyTeam Elite Plus passengers, traveling through Heathrow’s Terminal 4.

....“But it would be difficult to place them as a leader in service or innovation when compared to Singapore, Emirates, Virgin, or even British Airways, who pioneered the lay-flat bed in business class, and dramatically improved their lounges at both Terminal 4 and now Terminal 5 some time ago,” Ernest Arvai, president of the Arvai Group, a consulting firm to the airline industry based in Windham, N.H.,. “SkyTeam is playing catch-up and, while moving closer, is still not the leader in business class innovation or perceived value.”