Darling - I go back further than Continental Airlines coming to LGW - I am certain that this was The Chieftain Club Lounge before BCAL was taken over by BA and left for the North Terminal in 1988. I am sure that you are right, but I don't think that Continental was coming to the UK then? AA had their DFW flight and Delta was there as well.

This has nothing to do with the Lounge except that I am pleased that it has opened as I am coming up from BOD next week and returning tout de suite. I was so utterly sick of the messy compromise slapped together over at North Terminal. It was when some sassy little Lounge Lady informed me that "You'll be using this Lounge today" - pointing to the pub like horror behind her. "I do not think so" I told her and went to see BA. She was livid but powerless to refuse us. Some individual told us that there was no seating when I could see that the area in the Library window was vacant. Dreadful - utterly dreadful.

What is uncontrolled chaos apart from tautology?