Boarding plane directly from lounge
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Boarding plane directly from lounge
I was reading a trip report last week and in it the OP boarded the flight directly from the lounge. It was a nice way to bypass the Kettles.
In which airports and airlines can you board the plane directly from the lounge or completely bypass the Kettles another way?
The LH FCT qualifies as a bypass.
In which airports and airlines can you board the plane directly from the lounge or completely bypass the Kettles another way?
The LH FCT qualifies as a bypass.
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I was reading a trip report last week and in it the OP boarded the flight directly from the lounge. It was a nice way to bypass the Kettles.
In which airports and airlines can you board the plane directly from the lounge or completely bypass the Kettles another way?
The LH FCT qualifies as a bypass.
In which airports and airlines can you board the plane directly from the lounge or completely bypass the Kettles another way?
The LH FCT qualifies as a bypass.
Now that DL scooped up NW, don't know who uses that gate in the E concourse or if the lounge below is being used.
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if it is still there, please don't tell the tsa/let the tsa find out as next thing you know, the smurfs will be in the lounge doing their gate gropes
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Even this doesn't quite bypass the non premium, non elites. The arrangement is that the lounge is on the first floor and has a door to the air bridge. But other passengers use the same airbridge (accessed by stairs from ground level) and use the same door. Plane doors are always likely to be shared territory to some extent.
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Even this doesn't quite bypass the non premium, non elites. The arrangement is that the lounge is on the first floor and has a door to the air bridge. But other passengers use the same airbridge (accessed by stairs from ground level) and use the same door. Plane doors are always likely to be shared territory to some extent.
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Both AF and NH were mentioned at IAD, that's because they share a lounge
I suppose it's worth mentioning the Lufthansa First Class Terminal
I suppose it's worth mentioning the Lufthansa First Class Terminal
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