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LAS: contract lounge leaves AS network on 1/1/2020
LAX: T6: Completed Spring 2019
PDX: Completed Summer 2019
SEA: N Satellite/ rooftop: upgraded to Flagship (Seating, daytime Barista, fireplace, light food buffet/$8 food offerings - Completed Summer 2019
SEA D Terminal: Planned remodel to begin Mid 2020
SFO T2 : New lounge planned to open Mid 2020 or sooner
YVR: contract lounge leaves AS network on 1/1/2020
LAX: T6: Completed Spring 2019
PDX: Completed Summer 2019
SEA: N Satellite/ rooftop: upgraded to Flagship (Seating, daytime Barista, fireplace, light food buffet/$8 food offerings - Completed Summer 2019
SEA D Terminal: Planned remodel to begin Mid 2020
SFO T2 : New lounge planned to open Mid 2020 or sooner
YVR: contract lounge leaves AS network on 1/1/2020
Alaska Lounge Refreshes
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2015
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Alaska Lounge Refreshes
We’re investing in our airport lounges as part of a multi-year commitment to refresh and expand our portfolio. Here’s a preview of what’s coming to an Alaska Lounge near you.
What’s new
In the coming months, we’ll be enhancing our lounges in Portland, Anchorage, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Expect refreshed designs and amenities to make your lounge life even better. Here are a few of our favorite additions:
A refreshed look and feel featuring new comfortable furniture, warm finishes and a welcoming vibe;
Barista stations so that you can get your custom-crafted Starbucks® espresso beverages or loose-leaf Teavana® tea just the way you like them from an Alaska Lounge Barista; and
Meals for purchase, starting at just $8. You can buy fresh, filling, high-quality and affordable food to enjoy in the lounges or take to-go.
What’s new
In the coming months, we’ll be enhancing our lounges in Portland, Anchorage, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Expect refreshed designs and amenities to make your lounge life even better. Here are a few of our favorite additions:
A refreshed look and feel featuring new comfortable furniture, warm finishes and a welcoming vibe;
Barista stations so that you can get your custom-crafted Starbucks® espresso beverages or loose-leaf Teavana® tea just the way you like them from an Alaska Lounge Barista; and
Meals for purchase, starting at just $8. You can buy fresh, filling, high-quality and affordable food to enjoy in the lounges or take to-go.
Looking forward to seeing what AS thinks a flagship lounge should look like, since showers & someone who can make reservation changes aren't part of that vision. The architect's renderings show lots of open space, which looks nice on paper but translates to a loud area with limited seating, and is a bit sterile and plastic-y to boot. Hopefully they learned from the new SEA C lounge that bright light colored fabrics do not hold up well and show stains far too easily.
Also, with paid hot food coming to PDX, maybe they can finally get a full liquor license at that location...
#2
Join Date: May 2013
Location: SEA
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Looking forward to the new SEA N Lounge as well as the new SFO rooftop lounge!! For PDX, lets get a new space that holds more people please. Lastly, could we upgrade the food to at least match DL Sky Club and AA Admirals Club please.
#3
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Seattle, WA
Programs: AS MVPG, 1MM
Posts: 377
Looking forward to seeing what AS thinks a flagship lounge should look like, since showers & someone who can make reservation changes aren't part of that vision. The architect's renderings show lots of open space, which looks nice on paper but translates to a loud area with limited seating, and is a bit sterile and plastic-y to boot. Hopefully they learned from the new SEA C lounge that bright light colored fabrics do not hold up well and show stains far too easily.
Also, with paid hot food coming to PDX, maybe they can finally get a full liquor license at that location...
Looking forward to the new lounge.
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I am so against meals for purchase in lounges. I think it is déclassé, lowering the standards of what a lounge should be. It's also a slippery slope.
When airlines first introduced buy on board, they lowered the standards of the free meals that were still offered. Within a short time, they published surveys that said (basically): "Studies have shown that people prefer buy on board offerings to the standard offering. So we are discontinuing the free meals."
When airlines first introduced buy on board, they lowered the standards of the free meals that were still offered. Within a short time, they published surveys that said (basically): "Studies have shown that people prefer buy on board offerings to the standard offering. So we are discontinuing the free meals."
#5
Join Date: Sep 2008
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I am so against meals for purchase in lounges. I think it is déclassé, lowering the standards of what a lounge should be. It's also a slippery slope.
When airlines first introduced buy on board, they lowered the standards of the free meals that were still offered. Within a short time, they published surveys that said (basically): "Studies have shown that people prefer buy on board offerings to the standard offering. So we are discontinuing the free meals."
When airlines first introduced buy on board, they lowered the standards of the free meals that were still offered. Within a short time, they published surveys that said (basically): "Studies have shown that people prefer buy on board offerings to the standard offering. So we are discontinuing the free meals."
#6
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Location: PNW
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AS should look into a rooftop lounge at LAX too.
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#8
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As to LAX. Lease on terminal 6 at LAX comes due in 2021/22 time frame. AS probably wouldn't do anything at LAX until they have a new lease in place and maybe a place to put the Air Canada maple leaf lounge.There has been some discussion of the lease in LAWA closed session but nothing that I can find publicly. I would expect AS will want to do something at LAX since UA is just finishing up 7/8 and AA is about to start on 4/5 since I don't think they want to look stuck in the 60's at one of their hubs while everything around them is new and shiny.
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I generally agree, however I also think a lounge without hard drinks or cocktails also lowers the experience as well. Thanks to OLCC's arcane rules, the lack of food for sale is one of the things keeping the PDX club on beer & wine only from what I've been told.
#12
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Anchorage, AK
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It's not exactly a high standards place.
And before someone comes and accuses me of complaining (which, yeah, fine), I really like most of the product that Alaska Airlines offers.
But the lounge experience is not one of them.
As I ranted in another thread in August, having visited the nearly new SEA C lounge and the LAX lounge this summer, I'd never in a million years actually PAY for that experience.
Especially since the pancake machine had a sign on it that said "Broken."
At that point, you've just got a room full of dirty chairs with no power outlets.
SO. It will be interesting to see what this refresh yields! I hope for some serious improvements.
EDIT TO ADD: the pics of the SEA N-gates lounge look fantastic, but as someone else already said, I see seating for about, what, 20 people? In a room that looks to be about 1000 sq ft?
#13
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Well, yeah, but I mean... Alaska Lounge?
It's not exactly a high standards place.
And before someone comes and accuses me of complaining (which, yeah, fine), I really like most of the product that Alaska Airlines offers.
But the lounge experience is not one of them.
As I ranted in another thread in August, having visited the nearly new SEA C lounge and the LAX lounge this summer, I'd never in a million years actually PAY for that experience.
Especially since the pancake machine had a sign on it that said "Broken."
At that point, you've just got a room full of dirty chairs with no power outlets.
SO. It will be interesting to see what this refresh yields! I hope for some serious improvements.
EDIT TO ADD: the pics of the SEA N-gates lounge look fantastic, but as someone else already said, I see seating for about, what, 20 people? In a room that looks to be about 1000 sq ft?
It's not exactly a high standards place.
And before someone comes and accuses me of complaining (which, yeah, fine), I really like most of the product that Alaska Airlines offers.
But the lounge experience is not one of them.
As I ranted in another thread in August, having visited the nearly new SEA C lounge and the LAX lounge this summer, I'd never in a million years actually PAY for that experience.
Especially since the pancake machine had a sign on it that said "Broken."
At that point, you've just got a room full of dirty chairs with no power outlets.
SO. It will be interesting to see what this refresh yields! I hope for some serious improvements.
EDIT TO ADD: the pics of the SEA N-gates lounge look fantastic, but as someone else already said, I see seating for about, what, 20 people? In a room that looks to be about 1000 sq ft?
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#15
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Making the PDX lounge look nicer is really besides the point. It looks OK, but it's about half the size it ought to be. So, unless they are working with some anti-gravity technology, the refresh is largely nonresponsive to the overcrowding problem @ PDX. Is it possible they really meant to say they've nailed down a new, larger location in the C terminal? (Haha, no I didn't think so either.)