Airport Lounge

Booked Business Classic direct with Finnair. Routing is PER to SIN on Qantas, then SIN to HEL to EDI on Finnair, and same coming back. During booking it only let me select lounge access in Helsinki on the return. For Singapore it said something like “no lounge available,” which...

Short answer: you can’t buy access to the Silver Lounge unless you have status. It’s tied to oneworld Sapphire and above, so no amount of cash will get you in without status. For pay-in options, Al Maha is basically your only real choice airside. And yeah, the comments you’ve...

Executive Platinum on AA but working on building status with Alaska and Hawaiian. Flying to the mainland this week on Hawaiian, booked through Alaska. I’m ATMOS Silver and have two lounge passes from the ATMOS card. Wasn’t sure what, if any, lounge I could actually use with this...

Tried to get into the Avianca / TAP lounge at MIA this week with Priority Pass and my family. I’m pretty sure the person right in front of us was let in using PP. When I asked to scan, I was told they were “full.” What bothered me was how it went down after that. I mentioned it...

Tried to use the CHUM VIP and China Southern lounges at PKX today both turned me away, saying they don’t accept Priority Pass anymore. Only one that worked was the East Pacific Passenger Lounge, and it’s pretty rough. Not sure why the others are still listed on the app.

I had a 2-hour layover and waited 35 minutes just to get in. Food was pretty bad lettuce salad, crackers with pimento cheese, reheated soup, and cookies. For such a busy airport, it felt really underwhelming. Is this usually how The Club ATL is, or did I just catch a rough night?

Its always easy to complain about the issues at lounges and forget the people that make the experience desirable in the first place. Bartender at LAX tonight started work at his first job at 7am before starting his shift at the sky club. I met him at 9pm. Idk how he had the...