Originally Posted by
orbitmic
I don't really agree and this was not what I meant. I think the CCR is poor compared to the P lounge not because of the crowding (although it certainly does not help) but because the quality of everything is lower. The F terminal is much nicer than CCR but in my personal opinion also of a less refined quality than the P lounge.
So my point was not that new guesting would bring in crowding, but that AF simply...
Sorry if I misrepresented your previous post. I did in fact understand it exactly that way.
Still, I want to bring across the point that more users of an F lounge does not necessarily mean lower quality of the experience. I do agree that stuffing more people in the
existing lounge would deteriorate the experience and in the case of CDG would be highly unpractical. I do agree that within the
current setup of real estate, staff, the
currently devoted financial means and the (non-)appetite to spend much more on it is impossible to offer the same Premiere experience to many more people.
My point was: AF
could of course offer the same kind of experience to many more passengers. All it takes is more money to build larger lounges in both 2E and 2F, hire and train more staff for the service, etc. And the same is true for BA: they
could provide a much more exclusive service if they wanted. LHLXOS show that it's possible. Just a matter of how much money the airline is prepared to throw at this "problem" and the (sometimes formidable) challenges of real estate and scaling up a high touch service.
Where we agree is that they most probably won't do it. BA doesn't have the mindset to offer something outstandingly luxurious to its GGLs (nor to its F pax for that matter), and AF most probably won't do it either.