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Old Sep 29, 2019, 7:48 am
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Nic33
 
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Originally Posted by vantage03
They have some amazing ground staff at MIA who have worked for Lufthansa for >30 years! They invest in having full time LH-Group employees in the lounges to look after F/HON Pax. I think the reality is there probably isn’t space in the terminal for a lounge the size of what they need. That, and it’s seen as a leisure destination, so they probably don’t care too much.
The economics are certainly not good for LH, as it has to pay for its passengers attending third party lounges. I am not a regular F flyer, but I see that C is often full on LH/LX (even on the a388), so that makes a lot of lounge traffic.
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