joshwex90

How do you define IST? The *G lounge there, not F, is excellent.

I also like the BS Clubhouse in LHR, though that's not *A

airoli

Mmh... perhaps I'm just too cynical these days. But I wonder how many of these 120 bottles will be "available to sample for a small fee".

YuropFlyer

Istanbul has one of the best, if not THE best C/*G lounge in the world.

But yes, if you mean LH Group only, you're right

Wombelero

If this is true (120 brands in the SEN lounge, no fee), then I might even think about the 2000Euro "offer" for another SEN year!

YuropFlyer

Well, it could be 110 el-cheapo brands and 10 expensive ones, that unfortunately are almost always "just now" out of stock..

2000€ could hit you a *G for longer with some competitor easily

Or even cheaper (as in, just needing a ticket), just camp out of the lounge and wait for someone approaching it, asking to be their guest..

behuman

Hence the importance to keep *gold out of the SEN lounges - I bed it will happen sooner than we think.

JVPhoto

Some of us spend $12k+ in other *A programs...maybe they'll make a *A Plat status for us riff raff.

cbourl

i totally agree im a 1k and a senator most of my spend in through lh group and sen lounges should and are star gold lounges lh group have first lounge access for their Honours Circle

joshwex90

What do you envision the Senator Lounge being for then? Just HON/Sen plus *A F?

YuropFlyer

The concept that SQ is running at their hub comes in mind..

joshwex90

SQ likes to think they're not part of *A. LH isn't just a founder - they're a core member, and with the entire LH group, and the close relationship with UA plus the JVs with AC, another founding member, and they're European coverage, LH is an integral *A member.

TBH, I don't know the exact situation at SQ's hub as I don't fly them so I only encounter their policies online or their outstation lounges, so perhaps I'm not understanding exactly the intent.

But with 3 LH/LX lounges (F, Sen, Biz) and FTs having access to hte Biz lounge and F being exclusive to LH/LX F plus Hons as it is, relegating *G to Biz would be a major devaluation for *A overall as an alliance (though something that feels like is constantly breaking down anyways)

f4freeJunior

In Singapore the SQ biz lounge is better than the SQ operated *G lounge. You do not have access to the biz lounge unless you actually fly biz class or are a member of the PPS club which you can become with a 25k sgd spend per year in C and F on SQ metal.
The problem is that *G can be achieved so easily nowadays. And the differences of qualification requirements for all these different *G levels is huge. Too many cheap *G around, overpopulating the SEN lounges IMO.

cbourl

Sure SQ Elite Golds in the KrisGold lounge travelling in Y and all SQ C pax in Kriflyer lounge in SIN Entirely a different concept from LH Group lounges SQ are Ok but Im sooooooo looking forward to QR flying to my home town of Adelaide on the A350EWB. QR C is superlative! Always a 5 Star carrier! no Etihad or Emirates per me bevakasha! (I remember the days when they were a United partner and redemptions were easy as , with their seperate terminal at Doha for C n F pax) And no more schlepping through Changi on SQ SQ is only OK in F and their F lounge and Private room at Changi aint nothing to write home about!!!!!!! Not even a slumber room ! TG LX LH certainly have their F lounges and terminals well outfitted!
Lets face it each airline has their pros and cons

behuman

That is exactly the point. I wonder why many *alliance airlines give away gold so cheaply. The M&M revenue based system in force now is perfect and should be the reference.

joshwex90

From LH's perspective, each *A member airline pays for every entry of their *G FFs to LH lounges. So is it so bad for LH to have other airlines give away *G so easily?