Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
Yes it's the ANA lounge (nothing to do with the airline) directly above the FNAC store in the main retail rotunda area. Details in the main Europe lounge thread. The fact that Groundforce closes the gates early is for real, I would assume 30 minutes at the gate. The lounge is under 10 minutes from these gates but the Schengen exit is a variable that can take seconds (they use e-gates there for UK citizens, they stamp as you leave the area) or 15 minutes. This seems to be getting easier as the summer peak recedes.
Last Friday afternoon the e-gates for use by UK passport holders were all closed. Staff were directing passengers to the very long manual queue for passport control.
Quite often the BA 499, the early morning departure, uses an air-bridge.
Doc Copper