Originally Posted by
Reason077
I can't see it being worse than the present situation. With the current lounge, it's not so much the number of airlines and flights that's an issue - but the fact that most of the flights go out in a cluster in the evenings: 2xVS flights and 2xNZ flights all within about 3 hours of each other!
I couldn't find a way to quickly scrape the data, but looking at it roughly:
NZ2 (LAX-LHR) would share the lounge with (allowing for flights +/- 3h of the scheduled departure)
OZ to ICN
NH to NRT
LH to FRA
SQ to NRT
BR to TPE (assuming BR makes it into Star)
NZ1/NZ5 would share the lounge with:
LH to FRA
LH to MUC
LX to ZRH
OZ to ICN
NZ4011 to NAN (FJ811 - where would pax actually use the lounge in this case?)
NH to NRT
There's probably a lot that I missed. While the bulk of Star departures are out of T678 on UA, T1 on US and T2 on AC, there's still going to be considerable contention in a combined Star lounge given the number of pax likely connecting with 3-5h connections at LAX to other Star airlines... I'm sure that would offset the removal of VS and AF demand!