Originally Posted by
ikwia
How is visiting daily or weekly "gaming" the system if that's your actual flying pattern?
If the lounge is constantly crowded and other customers are being turned away due to the crowding. The way I see it, those who visit the lounge in such a high numbers per year are disproportionately the main cause of the crowding and are therefore denying others the benefit of having access to the lounge.
As I have shared tables at the lounges, I have talked to people at who would never have signed up for the Platinum card have done the math and realize the food and alcohol consumption could easily be worth $25+ per visit. Many of them visit twice per day and multiply that by several times per week. The value of F&B can exceed $5000 per year per Cardmember.
I realize it is technically not "gaming" as the current rules allow an unlimited amount of visits. I personally hope Amex gets smart and limits annual free visits to return it to a lounge to be used as a convenience for travelers rather than the food trough it has become.