*A First Class lounges
 

What is it about these places that makes them feel so unpleasant?

I've been to the ones at LHR, CDG and LAX and they're all indentically grim.

What were *A thinking of? Or were these group lounges designed by UA?

...and this has what to do with bmi?

I think at LHR, you can blame BA for the locations. So like the rest of he BMI board, who will all be blaming (or slightly miffed) at BA soon .....

Thread moved. Welcome to the *A forum. :)

GoldCircle
bmi forum Mod team

It seems you've encountered some bad ones. My experience is that all F-lounges I've been in has been better than the best C/*G-lounge (which do vary a lot).

I've tried the F-lounges in FRA (LH), ICN (OZ), NRT (NH), NRT (UA), ZRH (LX). Apart from the UA lounge in NRT they were all brilliant.

I believe he's talking about the Star Alliance-branded lounges which have no particular carrier's branding but instead used by all the Star airlines in a given airport/terminal.

In which case, yes, they are all pretty forgettable. For C lounges, they're not noticeably inferior, but given what the airlines offer in their own-branded F lounges, the Star F ones do seem very, very dull.

You named airline run lounges while OP was specifically targeting F lounges run by *A.

Correct. I also originally posted this in the BD DC forum as being both a member of the program and interested in the opinions of others who are too, believed that to be the most appropriate place.

Sorry the LX F lounge in ZRH is only for LH group F passengers and their HON members, the designated F *alliance lounge in ZRH is the LX Senator lounge. The same applies to the F terminal in FRA.