CDKing

I've heard of this happening in other carriers lounges as well

Thanks to me (likely others too) UA put their hot chocolate behind the counter. i used to walk out with 3 on every lounge visit. Never drank them though. I had a few dozen when i cleaned out the snack cabinet last year .

rafalojc

Saw a mutt in the Sky Club in LaGuardia the other day. I thought Delta put a stop to that. Can we class up the joints a little bit?

BRITINJAPAN3

Actually wrong, all food and bev in the lounge should be consummed in the lounge, otherwise technically its theft. And what you call moderation might be diffrent from the airlines definition

Idaho Territory

I'm guilty of stuffing two pancakes down my gullet while running out of the lounge for my flight.

rustykettel

If that were strictly the case, lounges wouldn't put out to-go cups, small candies by the front door, or encourage taking certain foods (such as the cookie bars in the DEN Sky Club).

Waitlisted

Recently saw a guy in the PDX lounge picking his nose and eating it. I was so put off i went early to the plane only to be in the 1st row with the guy next to me putting his bare feet on the bulkhead and then clipping his toe nails. Travel ain't what it used to be, just ask the guy pulled off the United flight.

notquiteaff

Some do, some don't. Last time I was in the Amex lounge in Seattle I overheard some other guest asking the staff for a to-go cup for coffee and they said they didn't have any. The interesting thing is that I was just about to ask the exact same question; to-go coffee is probably the main thing I would be interested in absconding with.

wwongo

I have noticed that the Amex lounge does not have to go cups but the Alaska lounge does and on the many occasions when I have left with coffee in one, I have never been stopped as I walk by the front desk even when I have also had a muffin in hand.

What seems odd to me is that the Alaska lounge does seem to be very strict about bringing food in. I think the main advantage to a lounge is that I don't have to wait in a long line to buy over priced food, but my 19 year old daughter does not see it that way. She likes to buy a bagel sandwich at the airport and has tried on several occasions to take it with her into the Alaska lounge. She has even tried sneaking it in and they will catch her and insist that she leave with it. I told her to stop embarrassing me and eat the bagel outside the lounge which she now does. Still, neither one of us can figure out the reason for the rule. Usually when outside food is banned it is because the venue is selling food but this lounge doesn't sell any food.

Not a big deal but it does puzzle me.

notquiteaff

Fear of smelly food? I'd hate to have the Alaska Lounge smell like a McDonalds or KFC

There are apparently also rules in some health codes disallowing food to be brought into restaurants. Too lazy to read through the WA or OR health codes.

Also this one: http://freakonomics.com/2011/11/02/c...r-dis-service/

rickg523

You're claiming some guy in a lounge at PDX is emblematic of the city?
Is that lounge reserved for locals? In fact, if you surveyed the lounge, how many of the people there would you think are from Portland? All of them? Only this guy?
I'll say anyone who deems an airport is somehow indicative of the city its in is traveling too much, yet not enough.
Ps - not from nor have ever lived in Portland. Visited though. Pretty decent city.

acarney

I thought you were supposed to embarrass her while in public...

wwongo

Oh not to worry I have done my share of embarrassing her through out her teen years.

miamiflyer8

I've never seen a problem with bringing food in but the spread in the lounge is sufficient on shorter visits.

The large Admirals Club at ORD has a lot of people bringing in McD and other fast foods, AA doesn't seem to ban it while all the other carriers do.

notquiteaff

That seems to be AA's official policy. Nothing in their rules prohibiting it. Also discussed here.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...s-club-ok.html

wwongo

I hadn't thought about the smelly food angle and it does make sense. Interesting that the Admiral's club does allow it. They certainly seem to be strict about it at the Alaska lounge.