Automatic Barriers coming to BA lounges
Aug 22, 2016, 12:34 pm
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Aug 22, 2016, 12:44 pm
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Plus, a little closer to home, LH provides a card to allow *G to enter the SEN lounge in LHR T2, and it works well. It's far more sensible than having to prove your credentials at the desk, then again at the inner lounge.
Aug 22, 2016, 12:55 pm
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Can't wait:
Did you know that you don't need to have any status with TK or an other airline or be flying in a premium cabin to get into the TK loumnge at IST?
Fake Boarding Pass App Gets Hacker Into Fancy Airline Lounges
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/fake-b...rline-lounges/
Fake Boarding Pass App Gets Hacker Into Fancy Airline Lounges
Originally Posted by Andy Greenberg in Wired
It’s an Android app that generates fake QR codes to spoof a boarding pass on his phone’s screen for any name, flight number, destination and class. And based on his experiments with the spoofed QR codes, almost none of the airline lounges he’s tested actually check those details against the airline’s ticketing database—only that the flight number included in the QR code exists. And that security flaw, he says, allows him or anyone else capable of generating a simple QR code to both access exclusive airport lounges and buy things at duty free shops that require proof of international travel, all without even buying a ticket.
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Aug 22, 2016, 1:27 pm
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See here - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27102143-post68.html
Then here - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27102188-post70.html
Then here where we have both been corrected, as the system has now changed - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27102300-post72.html
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Aug 22, 2016, 1:49 pm
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RFID cards seem to often interfere with other nearby RFID cards. It's easier for me to flash a bar code from my phone than to pull out an RFID card from the pile in the purse/wallet/bag/pockets.
Aug 22, 2016, 1:51 pm
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While I have some sympathy for the "human touch" argument, I agree with the general point that this is not really either/or but rather in most likelihood a case of automated gates with an agent still present to supervise the entry and help with complex cases, just as so many other lounges already do and indeed, as the fast track security operates.
If you arrive at a quiet time, you should be able to check into the lounge with the agent if you prefer, but if there is a queue and you feel that you need 5 more minutes in the lounge more than a civilised chat with an airline employee, you would be able to scan and go through instead. I don't think that this has to be a negative per se (not something I have often said about BA in recent months...)
If you arrive at a quiet time, you should be able to check into the lounge with the agent if you prefer, but if there is a queue and you feel that you need 5 more minutes in the lounge more than a civilised chat with an airline employee, you would be able to scan and go through instead. I don't think that this has to be a negative per se (not something I have often said about BA in recent months...)
Aug 22, 2016, 2:15 pm
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Aug 22, 2016, 2:47 pm
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As CWS has said, the Senator Lounges operate a similar setup.
At T2, a plain white card is given upon entry to the main Lufthansa Lounge, to those who are eligible. You then walk upto a pair of white frosted glass doors, tap the card, and the doors open.
It is actually quite a classy setup, and BA could implement something similar quite easily. It looks nice, it's easy, and the info is all held on a Boarding Pass - although a CCR card with a chip inside would be fun.
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At T2, a plain white card is given upon entry to the main Lufthansa Lounge, to those who are eligible. You then walk upto a pair of white frosted glass doors, tap the card, and the doors open.
It is actually quite a classy setup, and BA could implement something similar quite easily. It looks nice, it's easy, and the info is all held on a Boarding Pass - although a CCR card with a chip inside would be fun.
M
The Lounge Reception staff check your boarding pass, and then issue the Senator Lounge access card - or at least they did on the few occasions I flew on Lufty earlier this year.
Upon leaving the Senator Lounge, you drop the card into a chrome card-bin, and you then wander off to the gate.
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Upon leaving the Senator Lounge, you drop the card into a chrome card-bin, and you then wander off to the gate.
M
See here - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27102143-post68.html
Then here - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27102188-post70.html
Then here where we have both been corrected, as the system has now changed - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27102300-post72.html
M
Then here - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27102188-post70.html
Then here where we have both been corrected, as the system has now changed - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27102300-post72.html
M
Aug 22, 2016, 3:22 pm
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Aug 22, 2016, 3:26 pm
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