Originally Posted by
EK017
Since Japan has fully opened again, I'm guessing that ANA is getting a gauge on how much traffic they will be seeing. They are already seeing that the ANA lounges are becoming wildly overcrowded and that was before Japan opened up. Ideally within a few months, they reopen all of their lounges.
It is not that easy. The arrival lounge and the extra lounges are in the T2 international section, which is currently mothballed. So they need to operate flights enough to actually need the gates over there before anything happens. ANA does not need the operating costs of that unnecessarily.
People tend to forget that the current level of crowding is probably less than the prepandemic peak, it was a problem for a long while for ANA. And I guess they need the revenue from priority pass too badly to give up on it.