I'd Love Water/Soda bottle vending machine in SkyClub
 

I dunno about you, but I like to have a bottle of water or soda with me - even when I fly First. I would love it if I could buy a bottle at the SkyClub from a self-service vending machine before leaving for boarding.

It would certainly be easier and more convenient than having to hit up a vendor in the terminal.

Random musing from the F Skyclub this AM.

An option is to bring an empty water bottle with you in your carryon and fill it up with water or pop at the SC before you leave.

One of the things I like about Escape lounge in MSP, they have bottles of water and cans of Coke/Sprite.

Wouldn’t bringing a nalgene or something be just a bit more environmentally friendly? Of course I’m saying that with my iced Starbucks beverage in a single use plastic cup next to me 🙄

I, and many others, have been arguing for grab and go options at the SkyClub (or all clubs). That was actually a good innovation during the heights of Covid. Let passengers walk out with water, soda, sandwiches, etc.

Please don't give DL ideas about charging for F&B in the SC.

This would have to come with a water dispenser/filler that can be used without the mouth of the person's bottle touching the spout - I'm always shocked at the number of people I see doing this like it's no big deal. Similar to the still/sparkling water taps I see going in at a lot of the lounges but would probably need to be higher off the counter.

Aren't there tons of vending machines and stores in the terminal?

When I fill my water bottle in a SC, I always take the water in a glass and then pour it into my bottle at my seat.

I get what you're saying, but most people just aren't very careful.

Self-service vending doesn't mean have to pay. I've seen plenty that are zero cost.

In that case, just stock a fridge w/ bottles and cans, like many clubs already do.

I say this respectfully, but the last thing I want to see in an over-crowded SkyClub (or any lounge, for that matter) is a space-stealing, heat-producing, electric-hum-emitting, selected-object-clunking vending machine which will inevitably be played with by children. No thank you. I'm already longing for the sweet relief of death as it is.

True, but I could imagine DL deciding to do SCWM = SkyClub Water Monetization and then extending the "experience" by having all F&B distributed by vending machines, except possibly for adult beverages where bartenders are required. DL trims staff and collects more money from us. That would seem like a win for them.

Agreed! I don't fly DL as I don't live in NA, but all of those Chinese carriers don't stock soda waters on planes even in F, and only a few lounge have such supplies as well(The CZ lounge @can T1 before the move use to always be filled with canned drinks, and the Sodas are rarely touched)