Originally Posted by
sau54
That's unfortunate! Why? I thought LHR was pretty important to at least UA and SQ! I thought there would be more of an effort at least alliance-wide to match the T3 and T5 experience provided by VS and BA.
VS is outstanding at LHR and really can’t be beat. But BA is more on a par with UA. At T5, top tier and First get a unique security lane but an indifferent lounge. Biz class and other elites get two very poor lounges and one adequate one. UA get only a *G security privilege (personally the longest wait I have experienced in over a hundred flights was 4 minutes), but a choice of 3 very good lounges.
BA at T3 benefits from the CX lounge which is excellent. But, generally, the key difference between BA and UA is that BA offers First whereas UA doesn’t.