Originally Posted by
daron4000
While inflight service standards won't and are impractical to align, the ground services should be the same. If they want to offer passengers a "metal neutral" experience, it shouldn't matter the operating carrier, they should have the same ground experience.
This topic came up a couple times during the *A MegaDo, particularly about lounges and metal neutrality. Here's a video of the response we got during one of the sessions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyXDvzCjf7I. I don't think that access to the FCT/FCL is coming, but they are aware of issues with the metal neutrality concept and are addressing it in some ways.