Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
With only 2x daily flights, it's unlikely that AA generates enough traffic where that approach makes sense.
Honestly with the two daily departures AA has going from the 40-60 gates (as far as I know, at least one of them always?) which are both in the afternoon, it really does feel to me like during those hours you get a good amount of AA pax in the Pier F.
There are definitely way more EXP's on any given AA HKG-DFW/LAX flight than there are DM's on any long haul CX flight.
I'm taking this from my times flying HKG-EWR/SFO on UA a few years ago as a 1K and there were definitely a lot of 1Ks on board those flights!
So a typical Pier F afternoon at ~2pm will have a very heavy number of AA pax in it.
Unless there is a PVG/SIN flight leaving for CX at those 40-60 gates, its highly likely that there will only be 1-2 DM's (+guests) from each flight departing from those gates.
Maybe CX should cut down on the guest allowance? Is it possible that a lot of people make use of those +2 guests?
I quite like LH's concept of having your LH/LX F & HON only lounge as you can somewhat compare CX-DM to LH-HON in terms how how hard it is to get there (especially for first timers).