Originally Posted by
sbiddle
In fairness to Air NZ the weather situations we've seen over the past week are the exception, not the norm. Building lounges to cope with this demand would be uneconomical because they'd be too big 99% of the time.
Some of the complaints and moaning I've seen from people online and in the media in recent days has been quite remarkable. Sometimes bad weather events happen, and if people aren't willing to accept that then maybe they shouldn't use planes to fly places! If people want weather disrupt cover they should pay for an appropriate domestic travel insurance policy that will cover them for it.
Weather related completely agree, but lets be honest its pretty hammered most of the time if you fly at any sort of peak period. Just seems to have got much busier recently and I wonder if its an earned status/guest or bought membership load. From a work perspective, ie its a bonus that doesn't cost me anything, Im happy, if I was forking out heaps for BP and walked into some of these non weather related sardine tins I would be gutted!