Originally Posted by
swingaling
I’m surprised BA hasn’t gone the AA route with lounge access. AA elites flying domestic J don’t get lounge access at all (premium tcon pax excepted). It’s a bit strange that BA gives lounge access to CE flyers, while they don’t even have a dedicated J hard product on their intra Europe narrowbodies. If they eliminated lounge access for these folks, they could use those resources to provide a better product for their long haul customers. After all, do you really need lounge access before a 2hr flight?
That said, the BA lounge in BOS is actually pretty nice. Probably one of the best lounges at BOS, though in fairness I’ve not tried the LH or EK lounges.
To truly align BA with AA you would need to remove lounge access for all status passengers as well as those travelling in CE (perhaps even some none CE flights that are shorter than say 6 hours
regardless if using a LH aircraft). Doing so would significantly reduce the number of eligible passengers using the lounges each day. BA could then reduce the size of the lounges and perhaps look to improve the quality. However, they would probably lose a lot of customers alongside this. There are significantly more competitors for European travel than there is in the States.