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Old Aug 8, 2019 | 8:19 am
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NUNO
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Programs: AA PLT, *A Gold, Club Accor Gold
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Originally Posted by IAN-UK
Perhaps not, unless it is a *Gold designated lounge, and I don't think there is one at MAD.

The lounges are contract ones. Meaning each airlines negotiates the rates for providing a measure of comfort for its premium class and status passengers.

TAP has pulled out of those contracts. So fly out of MAD (and a whole raft of other airports) in business-class with TAP, and you get zilch.
It's a bewilderingly stupid move.
Dear IAN-UK,

That is correct, TP pull out of a lot of lounge contracts (MAD and BOD, for sure). Thankfully my home airport as been FIH in the last 2 years and here I have a choice of 4 *A companies (ET, SA, SN and TK) and one small but decent *A lounge
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