Lounge Updates
Jan 4, 2012 | 9:47 pm
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Lounge Updates
As written yesterday by Australian Business Traveller regarding Lounge Updates for Virgin Australia.
Virgin Australia will continue its push to woo business travellers and frequent flyers this year with new airport lounges at Sydney and the Gold Coast, while its Perth lounge will also be expanded.
The Gold Coast lounge is slated to open at the end of the second quarter says Martin Daley, Virgin Australia Group Executive of Product and Guest Services.
Daley told Australian Business Traveller that the lounge will seat around 135 travellers in 675 square metres of space, making it slightly smaller than its Brisbane sibling.
The new Gold Coast lounge will be Virgins second regional lounge, following last months opening of Mackay, but will be more like Melbourne and Brisbane in its design.
While the entry will be on the ground floor of the airport the lounge itself will be located upstairs, nestled between gates 1 through 3, affording a good view of the airfield.
New flagship lounge for Sydney
By years end Virgin hopes to open the doors of its new flagship lounge at Sydney airport.
Thats in the design phase now, weve still got a lot to work through Daly told Australian Business Traveller. Its a big piece of work.
The new lounge will share the clean, contemporary design of the slick Melbourne and Brisbane lounges created by Sydney-based architectural firm Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, and will be spread over two floors.
The (current) main lounge is on the lower level, theres another mezzanine level upstairs which the airport have been using for functions" TGZs Tim Greer told Australian Business Traveller earlier this year. Well take over that space and have a two storey lounge.
This unique layout could permit Virgin Australia to stage its work one floor at a time for example, building out and then opening the upper floor, so that the current lounge on the ground floor can be renovated rather than completely closing the lounge, as was the case at Melbourne and Brisbane airports.
Were looking now at how we stage that Daley says. Theres a fair bit to think about, (but) thats the staging process were working through.
Making more room at Perth
Also on the cards is an expansion of Virgin Australias Perth lounge, knocking down a wall to add an extra 100 seats to take the lounges total capacity to 250 travellers by the second quarter of 2012.
However, the lounge wont receive its own TGZ-styled makeover until Perth Airport opens its new Virgin Australia pier in 2014.
When the new terminal opens in 2014 well have a brand new lounge for that Daley confirmed.
Virgin Australia will continue its push to woo business travellers and frequent flyers this year with new airport lounges at Sydney and the Gold Coast, while its Perth lounge will also be expanded.
The Gold Coast lounge is slated to open at the end of the second quarter says Martin Daley, Virgin Australia Group Executive of Product and Guest Services.
Daley told Australian Business Traveller that the lounge will seat around 135 travellers in 675 square metres of space, making it slightly smaller than its Brisbane sibling.
The new Gold Coast lounge will be Virgins second regional lounge, following last months opening of Mackay, but will be more like Melbourne and Brisbane in its design.
While the entry will be on the ground floor of the airport the lounge itself will be located upstairs, nestled between gates 1 through 3, affording a good view of the airfield.
New flagship lounge for Sydney
By years end Virgin hopes to open the doors of its new flagship lounge at Sydney airport.
Thats in the design phase now, weve still got a lot to work through Daly told Australian Business Traveller. Its a big piece of work.
The new lounge will share the clean, contemporary design of the slick Melbourne and Brisbane lounges created by Sydney-based architectural firm Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, and will be spread over two floors.
The (current) main lounge is on the lower level, theres another mezzanine level upstairs which the airport have been using for functions" TGZs Tim Greer told Australian Business Traveller earlier this year. Well take over that space and have a two storey lounge.
This unique layout could permit Virgin Australia to stage its work one floor at a time for example, building out and then opening the upper floor, so that the current lounge on the ground floor can be renovated rather than completely closing the lounge, as was the case at Melbourne and Brisbane airports.
Were looking now at how we stage that Daley says. Theres a fair bit to think about, (but) thats the staging process were working through.
Making more room at Perth
Also on the cards is an expansion of Virgin Australias Perth lounge, knocking down a wall to add an extra 100 seats to take the lounges total capacity to 250 travellers by the second quarter of 2012.
However, the lounge wont receive its own TGZ-styled makeover until Perth Airport opens its new Virgin Australia pier in 2014.
When the new terminal opens in 2014 well have a brand new lounge for that Daley confirmed.
Jan 8, 2012 | 4:57 am
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Once the new terminal in Canberra is finished DJ will have a new lounge there too.. Haven't seen any details on what this might be but I'm guessing they will try match the location / size of the new QF lounges. Anyone know how long that will be?
The current Canberra lounge is pretty good too.. I did a blog review of it recently and was pretty impressed: http://www.carlousmoochous.com/2012/...alia-canberra/
The current Canberra lounge is pretty good too.. I did a blog review of it recently and was pretty impressed: http://www.carlousmoochous.com/2012/...alia-canberra/