Originally Posted by
hfly
Actually the opposite, with the exceptions of certain routes, domestic lounges in the US are generally "clubs" which one had membership in and domestic F does not include lounge access.
Originally Posted by
Soupdragon62
I don't think this is entirely accurate, I've flown Delta first SFO-ATL and as far as I remember no lounge access was permitted
Yes - this was precisely my point.
If there are certain services that should be part of certain price points that one pays for any product, and if an airline ticket should be no different, then one would have thought that lounge access should be part of any premium cabin ticket. Instead, one has to pay for entry to the lounge just to ensure you do get in.
That rather undermines the argument that there's some fundamental right to have free seat pre-allocation with every business class ticket, instead of recognising that different airlines do different things in their own way, for their own reasons.