Originally Posted by
San Gottardo
But on the other hand, these are airport lounges, where you have people that usually drink beer or coke and don't buy Champagne themselves regularly, some of them fill their trinkets with champagne so they can have it "to go", etc - I am not sure whether serving Krug or Billecard-Salmon wouldn't be wasted on them.
I agree if this was the regular C- or SEN lounge - but we're talking about the Firstclass lounge of a so called premium airline at their home hub. They consider their F class to be the Mercedes/BMW of the sky, not the Skoda. F fare tickets can be in the price range of a used Skoda, so serving a 20 EUR Champagne simply is not ok imo.