Originally Posted by
fil_87
Cost-cutting from LOT. Simple as that.
As far as I understand, lounges are not allowed to offer food & beverage.
So LOT has decided to close their lounge; they do not earn revenue from their lounges nor they do lose when they close them. The LOT management might have found it economically more proficient to close the lounge instead of restructuring it as a seating area for eligible passengers.
On the other hand, the Preludium lounge is a PriorityPass lounge and also accepts some other memberships. They earn money from those membership partners per each person that visits. Their revenue comes from passenger flow.
Also, people bringing their own food to the LOT lounge would decrease the company's reputation and decrease the quality of the lounge. In an airport lounge where I'm doing work on my computer or when I'm resting before the flight, I wouldn't appreciate someone eating Chicken McNuggets or a Big Mac that could change the smell and the ambiance of the lounge.