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