Originally Posted by
Akck
All I’ll say is that the lounges beat waiting in the gate area no matter what the condition of the lounges are in.
SFO T2 is actually pretty darned nice for a terminal. I have no problem going over to Cat Cora's Kitchen or Lark Creek Grill. MUCH preferable to Snack Towers of Sadness.
Most of the time I vastly prefer not waiting in a lounge or at the gate.
Originally Posted by
ashill
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?
VX had to use a pre-TSA lounge
in a different terminal in their primary hub, though since it was an international longhaul lounge it was incredibly nice if you could overloook the relative inconvenience (the VS Clubhouse SFO- it also had operating hours that didn't work for all VX flights). The lounge they used at LAX had some cross-subsidization from VA (LAX Club) and was pretty good for a while, though it went downhill as VX aged and went into the AS acquisition. Never used the one in JFK, and everywhere else... no lounge.
And comparing WN and B6... I see what you did there.
