Originally Posted by
Beyonce
But the flight is to Central America. Part of me gets the point you're making. With that said, they call the flight first class and their terms of service seems to suggest that they offer lounge access to first class passengers. Personally, I think that even domestic FC passengers should get the access since they are paying a premium to fly. I get that there's a lot of lounge overcrowding but they are other solutions. In short, it seems that airlines are increasingly offering benefits that they only want the high spenders to use.
Yes, I was noting that AA provides lounge access on FC flights to Central America, while DL now does not. It is what it is. Alaska Airlines provides lounge access to paid domestic FC passengers, but not those who get complimentary upgrades. Lounge overcrowding is an issue as well as the airlines aggressively pricing FC fares to sell more seats (instead of giving them away as complementary upgrades). Maybe if the airlines had more lounges that are over an acre in size like KLM has in AMS, overcrowding might not be such an issue.