Surprised No Lounge in Hobart
 

I obviously haven’t flown Virgin from Hobart before. I decided to fly Virgin to Hobart this week, and returning today was very surprised and disappointed that there is no lounge for Virgin at the Hobart airport.
pretty embarrassing for an airline that wants me as a regular flyer
certainly makes QF more appealing travelling down here.

How many VA flights a day from HBA?
How many VA business class seats a day from HBA?
Airline cannot have lounges at all airports.
But QF is to do a rebuild of its HBA lounge.

Nor is there Priority Pass or Amex. There's only a QF lounge as far as I'm aware.

The QF lounge at HBA is considered the worst in the network by many QFF'ers.

It looks on the main HBA to MEL leg that VA do 5 flights a day, QF do 3
And most lounge users aren’t flying business
I agree airlines can’t have lounges everywhere, but if QF have less flights, but are able to build a new expanded lounge, then you’d think VA could justify a presence.

Haven’t checked, so I’ll take your word for the number of flights between HBA & MEL. But, that’s ONLY to MEL. You’re not factoring in all the other airports that QF serves. Besides, as mentioned above, the QF lounge in HBA is thoroughly, incredibly underwhelming.

VA also fly's to Perth from HBA and likewise I was surprised to learn that they have no lounge there for my recent flight to PER. VA however have not even re-opened lounges at other Australian airports that they have daily flights to and indeed while they are now tentatively opening up international flights they have no international lounge access at Australian airports.

Have you seen the QF lounge in HBA? Nothing to write home about. Usually more crowded than the terminal.

QF have announced a renovation of it but tba when that will actually occur.

I will be attending FT OzFest 19 in Hobart next month. I too was surprised to learn that there is no VA lounge and no Priority Pass lounge in HBA. (I am flying VA because it is now a partner with United Airlines.) Flights are generally not cheaper than QF. ✈️

Spot on here. Considering that VA has between 8-11 flights per day out of HBA, absolutely no surprise that they don't have a lounge presence there. Even CNS with a similar (if not slightly larger) footprint for VA hasn't returned, so I doubt that VA would be spending the money to fit out a new space.