Originally Posted by
MichielR
From LX just now:
Change from terminal 4 to terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy airport (JFK)
From 1 February 2022, all SWISS flights to New York JFK will arrive at and depart from the airport’s Terminal 1, which is already used by our sister airlines in the Lufthansa Group. The move has been prompted by a reassignment of the gates.
SWISS aims to ensure that all travellers continue to enjoy our usual top-notch services also in our new JFK home. All the details of our services, our lounge and the further amenities that we will be offering our customers in Terminal 1 are currently being devised.
While having all these LHG airlines fly from one terminal makes sense, this is going to be a major problem from a lounge perspective. The LH lounge doesn’t really have the capacity to handle what’s already in T1, let alone the added traffic from LX. Maybe they are looking at post-covid numbers, but even then, the flights are packed these days, especially in F and C. Plus, right now, the LH lounge doesn’t have the SEN floor or the F/HON floor open. For F/HONs, pre-covid, the “Wine and Dine” floor was usually pretty much at capacity most of the time. So when they finally reopen that floor, how’s that going to work with the LX flights added to the mix — all of which have F (which is usually full/almost full)?! Maybe LH isn’t planning to put planes with F on this route anytime soon?! Still you have HONs. Will be interesting to see.
The crazy thing of course is that the LX lounge was just totally redone…