Originally Posted by
Roar
Why would Lufthansa have this policy? It has really made me angry. I could write customer service, but my sense is they already know and obviously don't care...
To answer your initial question: LH has this policy because they wanted to create a low cost airline ("cost" basically referring to operating cost, not the cost of the ticket) and one of the many ways to reduce the cost was to take that airline out of *A and limit lounge access to non-LH elites.
Obviously this cost-saving exercise hasn't worked out so well and some non-LH elites (UA) are again allowed into (some?) LH lounges when flying the low cost airline.
HTB.