Are lounges which serve members paying $295/year, customers holding credit cards with net annual fees of $150, and domestic F passengers typically paying a hundred to a few hundred more per ticket less fancy than lounges serving long haul business class customers paying many hundreds to a few thousand dollars more per ticket as well as members paying $450-$700 annual fees or holders of airline-specific credit cards with $495 annual fees without $300 rebates that essentially amount to cash available to any cardholder? Yes (though by a remarkably small amount, IMO).

It is more appropriate to compare AS’s lounges to those offered by airlines like WN, B6, WS (though they do offer a limited long haul network), or pmVX (airlines with more comparable route networks) than to those with long haul flights to subsidize the lounge networks, even if AS also competes domestically with the big three. Put in that light, how do the Alaska Lounges seem?