It occurs to me that this might be a crowd management strategy.

I was in Australia, connecting in BNE, and ended up sitting on the floor in the terminal, when (I found out later) Platinum cardholders are entitled to use the Virgin Australia lounge there, but it's only advertised to Australian Platinum cardholders.

It's the same with the lounges at YYZ, lounge access is available to all Platinum cardholders (USA and Canada at least) but only advertised to Canadians. It's otherwise available via the priority pass membership so it was moot in the Toronto case.

I got the notice about the EMP final dinner, and the Hamptons pop-up (View from the Wing had it first) but only heard about the Deer Lake pop-up from the community.

I can't think of any reason to not publicize benefits of the card to their cardmembers except that if they did publicize it, they'd expect overcrowding like the Centurion Lounges.

Thoughts?

Maybe we need a master thread of unpublicized Platinum Card benefits.